After the End: Recent Apocalypses
Author: | Paula Guran |
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Prime Books, 2013 |
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Synopsis
From the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh to Norse prophecies of Ragnarok to the Revelations of Saint John to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and 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 -- cataclysmic 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.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Paula Guran
- The Books - (2010) - shortstory by Kage Baker
- Tumaki - (2010) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Egg Man - (2008) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
- Chislehurst Messiah - (2011) - shortstory by Lauren Beukes
- Ragnarok - (2011) - poem by Paul Park
- Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) - (2002) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
- After the Apocalypse - (2011) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
- We Will Never Live in the Castle - (2010) - shortstory by Paul G. Tremblay
- Never, Never, Three Times Never - (2002) - shortstory by Simon Morden
- Pump Six - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Disappeared - (2008) - shortstory by Blake Butler
- Amaryllis - (2010) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
- The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross - (2008) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
- True North - (2011) - novelette by M. J. Locke
- Horses - (2009) - novelette by Livia Llewellyn
- The Cecilia Paradox - (2012) - shortstory by John Mantooth
- The Adjudicator - (2009) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
- A Story, with Beans - (2009) - shortstory by Steven Gould
- Goddess of Mercy - (2012) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
- Isolation Point, California - (2007) - shortstory by John Shirley
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