Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse

John Joseph Adams Stephen King Orson Scott Card Paolo Bacigalupi M. Rickert Jonathan Lethem George R. R. Martin Tobias S. Buckell Cory Doctorow James Van Pelt Richard Kadrey Catherine Wells Jerry Oltion Gene Wolfe Nancy Kress Octavia E. Butler Carol Emshwiller Neal Barrett Jr. Dale Bailey David Grigg John Langan First published 2008

About this book

Contains:

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.

Subjects

  • alzheimer's disease
  • apocalyptic fiction
  • aquifers
  • armageddon
  • australian short stories
  • décadence
  • dementia
  • end of the world
  • fiction
  • fin du monde
  • regression (civilization)
  • romans, nouvelles
  • science fiction
  • short stories