The Curse of the Coral Bride: A Romance of the Ultimate World - Paperbackby Brian Stableford (Author) In the far future, Earth is slowing dying, as the Sun has turned into a red giant that threatens to explode. The last inhabitants of the planet have no idea why they're still living, and why they seem to have been made in the image of earliest man and not the countless human species that have existed since. But they still have to time to ponder, and time to kill and they do so in the traditional way, by killing each other