The organization in the book is fantastic, each chapter starts of with a possible what if scenario. Placing fictional characters into the cross hairs of a doomed Earth. With each mini story giving a unique and interesting perspective, it really makes you think this could happen tomorrow, and who’s to say it won’t? The book features 336 fascinating pages and starts off the first chapter with an meteor impact scenario. In this scenario we see an individual who wakes up one regular morning and looks outside. He sees the normal things but doesn’t hear any birds chirping. He finds this strange but not too concerning. He then sees a bright light streaking across the sky. That bright light soon turns into a bright flash which blinds our main character for a moment. He then notices the tops of the trees are starting to smoke and the sky is turning bright red. The heat coming from his window is seemingly too much to bare and he has to back away. He decides its time to run, but the decision comes too late. A shock way hits and completely destroys the house and buries our main character in it. This is one way an Earth ending scenario could take place, and each chapter opens like this. This is an ingenious method of drawing readers in and keeping them fascinated, which I feel is an extremely smart way of keeping readers interested. He also gives a disclaimer at the end of each chapter to say it is not likely a disaster like will happen, and gives preventative approaches to prevent such and event from happening. And as Nick Bostrom, professor at Oxford University, says, “In order to cause the extinction of human life, the impacting body would probably have to be greater than 1km in diameter”. 1 km meteor impacts happen to thankfully be very rare events, but never the less a good way to scare readers into reading more.
Space Between Us 