Maybe I should write one called 'an explosion in the anti-matter factory'. You spend the first half the novel detailing ordinary likable people getting on with their lives. Then you go to someone who works in the anti-matter factory for making spaceship fuel who causes a fuel leak that destroy everything in a million mile vicinity. You can then quickly revisit all the others for their extremely short death scenes with a final cut to a joy rider who's flying round the solar system using the previous lot of fuel.