Review of T. L. Xue, “The End of the World, Simon et al.,” Luna Station Quarterly 65 (January 2026): 15-22 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
“End of the world” stories rarely contain anything new, insofar as there aren’t that many cataclysmic ways the world can end, so when this story didn’t give me anything new in terms of apocalypses, I wasn’t terribly disappointed. What this story had that was new was its framing, constructed along the lines of a scientific paper. I enjoyed that.