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"Most of us are aware of our own mortality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about endings on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, bio- sphere, Earth, Sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe. With a healthy dose of humor, How It Ends illuminates everything from the technologies of human life extension and the evolutionary arms race between microbes and men to the inescapable dimming of the Sun and the ultimate ""big rip,"" giving us a rare glimpse into a universe without us."

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A scientific view of the apocalypse unfolds in this tour of terminations... Impey entertains as he informs about the facts of life and death. Eminently readable... Impey injects humor throughout.

How it Ends by Chris Impey is fabulous, accessible science...He has achieved a real miracle with this book, as you finish reading it happier than when you started it. Patrick Neale, Bookseller's Choice, The Bookseller How it Ends is endlessly inspiring...In Impey's hands, the future comes alive and calls to us. It is enthralling, not depressing. Michael Brooks, New Scientist Astrobiologists who are interested in exobiology and the search for estraterrestrial intelligence should read this wonderful book carefully. Simon Mitton, The Times Higher Education Supplement ...this book is thoroughly enjoyable. Sky At Night Magazine

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Chris Impey is a distinguished professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and the critically-acclaimed author of Beyond, How It Began, and How It Ends, and four other books, as well as two astronomy textbooks. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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