So what is this novel? Well, it’s a kind of a collection of novellas — three, a science fiction novel taking place in the year 2000 as a giant planet called LYNX is coming unbearably close the Earth, threatening to destroy all life there and abscond with the moon while a high school teacher who first denies the existence of the planet is then mad that he won’t be selected to help with the solution to save humanity (escape on a kind of ark); the […]
In pursuance of my duties of literary executor of the author of whom this, his first published posthumous work, is herewith offered to the delectation of some readers and the undoubted bewilderment of others…
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess