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John Joseph Adams is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and critic. His anthology The Living Dead was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and was named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble.com labeled Adams "The Reigning King of the Anthology World". He was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, Short Form, and his magazine Lightspeed Magazine was a finalist for Best Semiprozine.
Synopsis
AFTER THE APOCALYPSE
Prescient tales of Armageddon and its aftermath, by twenty-two of today's finest writers, including:
Paolo Bacigalupi
Neal Barrett, Jr.
Tobias S. Buckell
Cory Doctorow
David Grigg
Nancy Kress
Jack McDevitt
Mary Rickert
Dale Bailey
Elizabeth Bear
Orson Scott Card
Carol Emshwiller
Richard Kadrey
John Langan
Jerry Oltion
James Van Pelt
Catherine Wells
Together they reveal what it will mean to survive and remain human after the end of the world...
An anthology of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction.
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An anthology of 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, 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.
Contents include:
Introduction — John Joseph Adams
The End of the Whole Mess — Stephen King
Salvage — Orson Scott Card
The 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 Sysadmins Ruled the Earth — Cory Doctorow
The 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.
The End of the Word as We Know It — Dale Bailey
A Song Before Sunset — David Grigg
Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers — John Langan