Disastrous!: Three Stories of the End of the World

Let’s admit it, there’s a guilty pleasure in imagining how civilization could end! An invasion from beneath our feet. A hammer blow from the sky. A genetic crop modification that could bring about humanity’s extinction. Tartarus Rising: The most critical business centres of the world are suddenly swallowed into the ground, a chemical explosion devastates New Jersey, and survivors flee the rumours of invaders from beneath the Earth. (First published in the anthology "Doomology" from Library of Science Fiction & Fantasy Press, 2010). Saviour: A killer asteroid is headed for the Earth and the defence against it depends on one man. But what if he’s the wrong choice? The Cleansing: The people of a far-future pastoral Earth discover that their forbears genetically modified their crops to be protected from mutations by occasional die-offs. Except no-one has a plan when all of the crops start to die at the same time. Three short stories with a total word count of about 16,000.