God Encompasses (short story)

 was the eighth and final story in the anthology Furthest Tales of the City. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

Summary
The end has come for the City of the Saved. A wave of all consuming unknowableness is consuming the City and nothing, not even the last stand of the combined might of all of humanity's armed forces, could stop it. Standing before it is Compassion, the last human descendant. Does she have a plan to succeed? Obviously...

Characters

 * Compassion
 * The Anonymity

Continuity

 * Compassion was mother to a breed of timeships for the Great Houses, (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, The Book of the War) who are considered human by City standards, but for reasons known only to Compassion were excluded from resurrection in the City. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)