Don t miss "The Hopkins Manuscript" by R.C. Sherriff; Scribner (385 pages, $18) ——— "The Hopkins Manuscript" is a terrific, chilling, sometimes funny novel about the end of the world. Originally
Originally published in 1939, “The Hopkins Manuscript,” by the British writer R.C. Sherriff, inaugurated a genre of post-apocalyptic fiction in which a resourceful hero survives unthinkable cataclysm.