Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody

universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.”

—David Wong, author of John Dies at the End

“There has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.”

—Michael Largo, author of Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

“This book is hilarious. As if I wasn’t already afraid to leave the house. What’s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn’t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.”

—Garth Sundem, author of The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 by Robert Brockway

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brockway, Robert, 1980–

Everything is going to kill everybody : the terrifyingly real ways the world wants you dead / Robert Brockway.

p. cm.

1. Hazardous substances. 2. Natural disasters. 3. System failures (Engineering). I. Title.

T55.3.H3B76 2010

303.48?5—dc22

20090393312

eISBN: 978-0-307-46435-4

Illustrations by Jason Pedegana

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Notes

1

Observers are hungry lions.

2

Put your hands down, aspiring serial killers and rapists. Your vote does not count here.