This is obscure. I don't remember if it was Mack Reynolds or Hogan, but it was called (IIRC) "The Chaos Weapon." It was about a race (also humans) that was trying to flee their universe that was about to become a "Big Crunch." They were killing off the geniuses and movers/shakers of our (future) universe, using a weapon that altered entropy and chaos. If you had a possibility of getting into a car accident, their weapon would cause the crash to become imminent, unavoidable, and huge rather than tiny.<br /><br />The weapon was powered by multiple singularities and located in a "space" between our two universes. And the hero had an ethereal, multi-dimensional partner that lived attached to his shoulder.<br /><br />Ring a bell, anyone? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis: </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>