'Surviving the end: Apocalypse, evolution, and entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon' by Peter Freese. _Critique_ 36.3, Spring 1995, pp. 163-176. Treats Malamud's _God's Grace_ (1982), Vonnegut's _Galapagos_ (1985) and _Lot 49_. Pdf available. best