RaveThe New YorkerLynskey...has assembled biological, geological, archeological, literary, and cinematic permutations of existential finales, leaving no stone unturned, be it meteor, comet, or asteroid ... Doom without the gloom. His accounts of natural disasters are leavened not only by the imaginary disasters in his purview but also by his obvious enjoyment of them ... It’s only because Lynskey’s book is so thoroughly researched that one notices peculiar omissions ... Lynskey’s darker forebodings become, in their own compendious way, almost heartening.
