Extinction At Last - On The Beach (1957) Part 3

The end of the world occurs at beach in Port Phillip Bay of all places, and you sit in your big car and stare at the grey counterspectacle, hoping in the final instance to see some aspect of how the world came to be.

This week we cover the closing chapters, and closing days, of Neil Shute's apocalypse novel On The Beach.

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Timestamps

00:00:00 - Book complications
00:24:00 - Extinction politics
00:41:10 - Who goes last
01:07:00 - Dwight and Moira
01:23:50 - Peter and Mary
01:32:20 - Dwight's loyalties
01:38:40 - Substance of reality
01:59:40 - How it ends