“Remarkably upbeat, a nd imbued with wit, wisdom a nd a palpable sense of awe over our universe.”— Tucson Weekly Most of us are aware of our own mo r tality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded fr om 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, a nd, finally, the entire universe. With a healthy dose of humo r , How It Ends illuminates everything fr om the technologies of human life extension a nd the evolutionary arms race between microbes a nd men to the inescapable dimming of the Sun a nd the ultimate “big rip,” giving us a rare glimpse into a universe without us. 68 black-a nd-white illustrations