Deliberately excluding apocalypses resulting from aliens or zombies, Adams attempts to answer the question of what would the world be like after the ap I can hardly believe I'm saying this, but I think I prefer apocalypse stories with zombies. Apparently contributions were curated or written with either physical or emotional desolation in mind.
I've enjoyed Joseph Adams' edited collections before (the The End is Nigh series has some great arcs), but Wastelands largely feels bleak and depressing. I can hardly believe I'm saying this, but I think I prefer apocalypse stories with zombies. The End of the World as We Know It by Dale Bailey Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr. Still Life With Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow How We Got In Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethemĭark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core. 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. Butler, and Stephen King - Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. 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. 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. In doing so, Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.įrom 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. 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. Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.