Chrysalis

People have imagined a million ways for the world to end. Science warns of meteor strikes and endless time bloating the Sun until it burns the planet molten. Humanity dreams of suicide by disease or war or poisoning our environment until we can’t survive it anymore. Prophets speak of angels and demons, while storytellers warn of unspeakable horrors from beyond the stars. But George Bradley knows that they’re all wrong. George Bradley is watching the world end in a way that no one ever expected: in terrible, terrible beauty.