Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements IX
3. EPIGRAPH XI
4. The Die Is Cast: A dramatis personae XIII
5. Contents XV
6. List of Illustrations XIX
7. PRELUDE
8. Backstory to the Future
9. Introduction 1
10. ACT I: THE DOUR
11. I Here.Goes.Nothing. 31
12. II Shift.Happen.Stance. 52
13. III Blunt.Force.Trauma. 77
14. ACT II: THE DIRE
15. IV And Now for Something Completely Indifferent . . . 113
16. V A Brief History of Running Out of Time 149
17. VI What is Life (at the End of Empire)? 178
18. ACT III: THE DICE
19. VII It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Island 209
20. VIII Laughing All the Way to the Cryobank 242
21. IX How to Fall in Lava with Volcanoes 271
22. POSTSCRIPT (posthumous)
23. Nothing.Last.Forever. 305
24. Glossary 327
25. Author bio 339
26. Bibliography 341