After the End Recent Apocalypses Author:Paula Guran (Editor) From the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh to Norse prophecies of Ragnarok to the Revelations of Saint John to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, any number of fictional zombie Armageddons, and the dystopic world of The Hunger Games, we have always wondered what will happen after the world as we know it ends. No matter what the doomsday scenario -- catacl... more »ysmic climate change, political chaos, societal collapse, nuclear war, pestilence, or so many other dreaded variations -- we inevitably believe that even though the world perishes, some portion of humankind will live on. Such stories involve death and disaster, but they are also tales of rebirth and survival. Grim or triumphant, these outstanding post-apocalyptic stories selected from the best of those published in the tumultuous last decade allow us to consider what life will be like after the end.
Includes:
The Books by Kage Baker
Tumaki by Nnedi Okorafor
The Egg Man by Mary Rosenblum
Chislehurst Messiah by Lauren Beukes
Ragnarok by Paul Park
Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) by Cory Doctorow
After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh
We Will Never Live in the Castle by Paul Tremblay
Never, Never, Three Times Never by Simon Morden
Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Disappeared by Blake Butler
Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn
The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross by Margo Lanagan