EDGE

"Edge "begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault.
The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea--that have become the stu
ff of parody--become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe p
ales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a cataclysm extend
ing beyond mankind's understanding of horror as it had previously been known. Th
e world is falling apart because things are out of joint at the quantum level, a
bout which of course there's never been any guarantee that everything has to rem
ain stable.