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    Not with a Bang
    Not with a Bang
    Not with a Bang
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    Not with a Bang

    By A. Andrew Tantia

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    Fans of Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, etc. will enjoy this short comedy, in which the last two men alive happen upon an average, run of the mill, garden-variety garden; all the real estate that remains of their shattered planet. Despairing at the fact that the human race has been wiped out, and failing to see the bright side of things, i.e. that the human race has been wiped out, they elect to end their troubles once and for all but are offered a reprieve at the last minute. Unfortunately, even a deus ex machina can only do so much...

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    PublisherA. Andrew Tantia
    Release dateApr 10, 2011
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      Not with a Bang - A. Andrew Tantia

      NOT WITH A BANG

      By A. Andrew Tantia

      Copyright 2011 A. Andrew Tantia

      Cover art by David Graham

      As gardens go, it wasn’t a particularly large or beautiful one. There were some isolated trees, a smattering of withered shrubbery, and a layer of matted grass, all frozen solid and encrusted with a fine patina of ice. It was just your standard, run of the mill, garden-variety garden.

      This otherwise unremarkable patch of land had perhaps just one distinguishing characteristic: it was the last garden left from what had formerly been the planet Earth and was now instead the loose-collection-of-rocks-and-debris Earth. The rocks and debris in question, for lack of anything better to do, were floating tranquilly in space around the garden.

      In the middle of the garden was a large, broad-shouldered man named John Wayne—no relation—who kicked away a nearby rock. It sailed past a wiry man named Robin Beard, who was moping under a petrified tree. It bounced off a silvery barrier—the energy-field surrounding the garden and holding it pressurized—and zipped back like a stray missile towards John, who ducked just in time. The spaceship maintaining the field and pumping in oxygen loomed alongside.

      What now? said John.

      Search me, said Robin glumly. "You can’t exactly start a world anew with two

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