How is the end of the universe portrayed in science fiction?
        
        
     
    
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        The Heat Death scenario appeared in 1895 in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.
        
        
     
    
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        Poul Anderson explored the Big Crunch in his 1970 novel, Tau Zero.
        
        
     
    
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        See far futures edited by gregory benford has several ends of time including the barren universe end.