This is humanity's last year on Earth, at least that's what everyone keeps saying. I've been living here in the District since they started the countdown. About four years past. Everything started to get crazy after that terrorist bombing. It happened right after the last election, funny enough well before we knew

The year is 2040. Twelve years before the projected apocalypse. Allister Adams, a boy with the curiosity and fear of any seven-year old, has accompanied his dad to his workplace at the nearby power plant.

I had a cousin who lived out in Los Angeles back in the early 2030s. It was nuts back then. She used to tell me stories -- the parties in the hills, getting to mingle with celebs and the like, it was high time for so many folks. They'd just gotten over