Manifold:Time

Reread Manifold:Time, the first in Baxter's Reid Malenfant (bad-boy, get it?) series. The Carter Catastrophism is, of course, just as silly as it was the first time. Had an interesting thought near the end, though: the same argument can be applied to universes. If the 'current generation' of universes contains billions of billions of universes each with billions of billions of black holes created, implying an exponential curve backward and forward, why doesn't the same logic conclude that the vacuum collapse business is doomed to fail and that there's a cosmic extinction event coming in the immediate metacosmological future?

Nihilist science fiction at it's best. No other author could attempt to convince you that obliterating the entire universe is the morally correct thing to do...