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Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: The nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse.
Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King - Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core.
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
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End of the Whole Mess / Stephen King --
Salvage / Orson Scott Card --
People of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi --
Bread and bombs / M. Rickert --
How we got in town and out again / Jonathan Lethem --
Dark, dark were the tunnels / George R.R. Martin --
Waiting for the Zephyr / Tobias S. Buckell --
Never despair / Jack McDevitt --
When Sysdmins ruled the Earth / Cory Doctorow --
Last of the O-forms / James Van Pelt --
Still life with Apocalypse / Richard Kadrey --
Artie's angels / Catherine Wells --
Judgment passed / Jerry Oltion --
Mute / Gene Wolfe --
Inertia / Nancy Kress --
And the deep blue sea / Elizabeth Bear --
Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler --
Killers / Carol Emshwiller --
Ginny Sweethips' flying circus / Neal Barrett, Jr. --
End of the word as we know it / Dale Bailey --
Song before sunset / David Grigg --
Episode seven : Last stand against the pack in the kingdom of the purple flowers / John Langan.
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