Humans love to imagine their own demise.

From raging fires to a politician promising to Make America Great Again - Octavia Butler's novels are eerily prophetic.

In a world where an ongoing genocide has become an accepted background noise, where climate change continues to wreak havoc ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly ... dread of our own individual extinction by imagining a broader apocalypse. If the world collapses entirely, we won’t have ...