Not with a Bang

Station Eleven meets Leave the World Behind in this family drama at the end of the world about a crumbling household’s attempts to find their way back to each other amidst a cataclysmic event.

"Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he summoned it."

The Minton family is in crisis. After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time, his daughters are unravelling in their own ways – Chantale is being haunted by dreams of disaster, and Briar’s obsession with a missing classmate draws her deeper into the seductive world of a UFO cult. Meanwhile, no one is aware of the diagnosis their mother has been trying to keep hidden.

When, on the morning of the eldest daughter’s wedding, an extinction-level event tears the world apart, the Mintons must fight their way through a devastated city—back to safety, survival, and each other.

Temi Oh is a British Nigerian science fiction author, screenwriter, and neuroscientist. She is the author of the American Library Association’s Alex Award–winning Do You Dream of Terra-Two?, More Perfect, and Not With a Bang. She has also written stories for Marvel’s Black Panther, Doctor Who, and Overwatch. Her first short film Murmur was funded by Sky Arts and the BFI. Since then, she has written on the Netflix series Castlevania: Nocturne and the CBBC series Silverpoint.

• Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
  
• Publish Date: July 14, 2026
  
• Pages: 352
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781668203460
  
• Dimensions: 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.7 lb Wt
• BISAC Categories: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction