Wastelands
Subtitle: Stories of the Apocalypse
Edition: 2nd printing
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781597801058
Copyright date: 2008
Description: 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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Notes: USA/CAN
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1
authors: John Joseph Adams; title: The End of the Whole Mess
pagenum: 3
authors: Stephen King; title: Salvage
pagenum: 23
authors: Orson Scott Card; title: The People of Sand and Slag
pagenum: 39
authors: Paolo Bacigalupi; title: Bread and Bombs
pagenum: 55
authors: M. Rickert; title: How We Got In Town and Out Again
pagenum: 67
authors: Jonathan Lethem; title: Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels
pagenum: 87
authors: George R. R. Martin; title: Waiting for the Zephyr
pagenum: 101
authors: Tobias S. Buckell; title: Never Despair
pagenum: 107
authors: Jack McDevitt; title: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
pagenum: 117
authors: Cory Doctorow; title: The Last of the O-Forms
pagenum: 149
authors: James Van Pelt; title: Still Life with Apocalypse
pagenum: 161
authors: Richard Kadrey; title: Artie's Angels
pagenum: 165
authors: Catherine Wells; title: Judgment Passed
pagenum: 177
authors: Jerry Oltion; title: Mute
pagenum: 197
authors: Gene Wolfe; title: Inertia
pagenum: 207
authors: Nancy Kress; title: And the Deep Blue Sea
pagenum: 229
authors: Elizabeth Bear; title: Speech Sounds
pagenum: 245
authors: Octavia E. Butler; title: Killers
pagenum: 257
authors: Carol Emshwiller; title: Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus
pagenum: 267
authors: Neal Barrett, Jr.; title: The End of the Word as We Know It
pagenum: 283
authors: Dale Bailey; title: A Song Before Sunset
pagenum: 297
authors: David Grigg; title: Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers
pagenum: 307
authors: John Langan; title: For Further Reading
pagenum: 329