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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue | |
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| "The End Is Near!" | |
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| The Skies Are Falling | |
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| Celestial Messages | |
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| The Bridge to Eternity | |
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| Dreams of Perfection | |
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| Visions of Doom and Redemption | |
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| Revelations of the End | |
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| Heaven's Alarm to the World | |
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| The Importance of Being Vague | |
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| Wars of Redemption | |
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| The Masque of the Red Death | |
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| Re-creating Heaven and Hell | |
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| Apocalypse Now! | |
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| Thus Spoke the Science Apologist | |
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| Cosmic Collisions | |
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| Making Worlds | |
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| The Stone of Aegospotami | |
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| Evil Also Rises | |
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| Cosmic Boils | |
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| The Rationalization of Doom | |
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| The Genesis of Worlds | |
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| The Genesis of Worlds, circa A.D. 2001 | |
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| Impact! | |
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| Geology Turns Catastrophic | |
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| Dinosaur Doom | |
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| Apocalypse Now? | |
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| Searching for Killers | |
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| Fighting Doom in Outer Space | |
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| Prepare or Else! | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Stars | |
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| Fire in the Sky | |
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| Sun Worshipers | |
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| Solar Chemistry | |
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| Solar Alchemy | |
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| Red Giants | |
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| The Shedding of the Veil | |
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| Cosmic Maelstroms | |
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| The Unbearable Heaviness of Being | |
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| New Stars That Are Old | |
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| An Absurd Idea | |
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| The Last Bastions of Normalcy | |
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| Gravity Redefined | |
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| Descent into the Maelstrom: Prologue | |
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| Descent into the Maelstrom: A Fantasy | |
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| Descent into the Maelstrom: Postscript | |
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| To the End of Time | |
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| Fire and Ice | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1945 | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1980 | |
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| A Short Discourse on Time: Part 1 | |
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| Time Regained | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1998: Building Blocks | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1998: The Quartet of Fundamental Forces | |
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| The Quest for Unification: The Inner-Space/Outer-Space Connection | |
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| The Quest for Unification: Toward the Beginning | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1998: Cosmic Challenges | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1998: Inflating the Big Bang | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 1998: The Quest for New Cosmic Origins | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 2002: Remembrance of Fluctuations Past | |
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| The Cosmos, circa 2002: The Return of the Ether? | |
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| A Short Discourse on Time: Part 2 | |
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| Epilogue: Celestial Wisdom | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |