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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 Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. 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. Stories in this collection: 01) Introduction by John Joseph Adams 02) The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King 03) Salvage by Orson Scott Card 04) The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi 05) Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert 06) How We Got In Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem 07) Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin 08) Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell 09) Never Despair by Jack McDevitt 10) When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow 11) The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt 12) Still Life with Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey 13) Artie's Angels by Catherine Wells 14) Judgment Passed by Jerry Oltion 15) Mute by Gene Wolfe 16) Inertia by Nancy Kress 17) And the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth Bear 18) Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler 19) Killers by Carol Emshwiller 20) Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr. 21) The End of the World as We Know It by Dale Bailey 22) A Song Before Sunset by David Grigg 23) Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers by John Langan 24) For Further Reading by John Joseph Adams
