I read On the Beach back in high school, over 30 years ago, along with Alas, Babylon. Both of these were post-nuclear war stories, but had completely different endings, as I recall. Humans have survived (as a species) any number of disasters; civilizations have risen and fallen throughout all of recorded history.
Please stay out of my bookshelf?
Want to read a rocking good end of world tome?
Lucifer's Hammer.
Or a sci fi twist on same story?
Footfall.
Niven and Pournelle wrote both. I go back to each occasionally.
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