The End of the World Author:Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Joseph D. Olander (Editor), Eric S. Rabkin (Editor) Essays selected by the editors to explore apocalyptic visions--discussions of the world’s best apocalyptic writers & stories: alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war. "...the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world": the emergence of a new order from ... more »the ashes of the old system; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity.
Contents:
Introduction: Why Destroys the World? • essay by Eric S. Rabkin;
The Remaking of Zero: Beginning at the End • essay by Gary K. Wolfe;
The Lone Survivor • essay by Robert Plank;
Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End • essay by Robert Galbreath;
Round Trips to Doomsday • essay by W. Warren Wagar;
Man-Made Catastrophes • essay by Brian Stableford (variant of Man-Made Catastrophes in SF 1981);
The Rebellion of Nature • essay by W. Warren Wagar.