This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow is obviously another one of the SF Masterworks editions I told you last Sci-Fi Saturday that I like to pick up. It should come as no surprise to you if you read that post that I also haven’t read this one yet. Hopefully 2023 will be the year. For now, I can share the blurb so you can decide if it is one that also sounds interesting to you.

When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn’t hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to protect her form radioactive fall-out and all George has to do is sign a document admitting that, as a passive citizen who did nothing to stop it, he has a degree of guilt for any nuclear war that breaks out. George signs on the dotted line.

And then the unthinkable happens…