Psalms For The End Of The World: the 'mind-bendingly clever and utterly gripping' science fiction thriller

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He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire. A book designed to be more than the sum of its parts, and one that achieves that because love is the thing that binds it together. Vitally fresh’ DOMINIC NOLAN (author, VINE STREET )

The blurb of Psalms is its own spoiler and, coupled with Grace’s obsession with the nature of reality, we are forewarned that this is not only a sci-fi novel but one of fantasy. Crime is implicit – and boy! What crimes. The event usually referred to as “the end of the world” (eschaton) is described in 2 Peter 3:10: “The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.” This is the culmination of a series of events called “the day of the Lord,” the time when God will intervene in human history for the purpose of judgment. At that time, all that God has created, “the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), He will destroy. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me…

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. This is a truly epic story – there are so many ideas and emotions coming together in such a beautiful and fascinating book. I guarantee you will carry on thinking about it long after you have finished reading. The writing is excellent and every character has been thought out in such great detail. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. A trans-dimensional, kaleidoscopic mystery-box of a novel…. wholly and riotously original. Haddon is a mad scientist of genre and his epic is a tour de force.’ PETER HO DAVIES (author, A LIE SOMEONE TOLD YOU ABOUT YOURSELF )

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD; And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee.First, it will be cataclysmic in scope. The “heavens” refers to the physical universe – the stars, planets, and galaxies—which will be consumed by some kind of tremendous explosion, possibly a nuclear or atomic reaction that will consume and obliterate all matter as we know it. All the elements that make up the universe will be melted in the “fervent heat” (2 Peter 3:12). This will also be a noisy event, described in different Bible versions as a “roar” (NIV), a “great noise” (KJV), a “loud noise” (CEV), and a “thunderous crash” (AMP). There will be no doubt as to what is happening. Everyone will see and hear it because we are also told that “the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.”