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The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse
The End of the World Stories of the Apocalypse Author:Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. This explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doo... more »msday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war--back to the bookstores with a bang. Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries. Each story details the eerie political, social, and environmental destruction of our world.
Contents:
Dancing Through the Apocalypse • essay by Robert Silverberg;
The Hum (2007) / Rick Hautala;
Salvador (1984) / Lucius Shepard;
We Can Get Them for You Wholesale (1989) / Neil Gaiman;
The Big Flash (1969) / Norman Spinrad;
Kindness (1944) / Lester del Rey;
The Underdweller (variant of Small World) (1957) / William F. Nolan;
Lucifer (1964) / Roger Zelazny;
To the Storming Gulf (1985) / Gregory Benford;
The Feast of Saint Janis (1980) / Michael Swanwick;
The Wheel (1952) / John Wyndham;
Jody After the War (1972) / Edward Bryant;
Salvage [The Mormon Sea] (1986) / Orson Scott Card;
By Fools Like Me (2007) / Nancy Kress;
The Store of the Worlds (1959) / Robert Sheckley;
Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels (1973) / George R. R. Martin;
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth . . . (1951) / Arthur C. Clarke;
Afterward (2006) / John Helfers;
When We Went to See the End of the World (1972) / Robert Silverberg;
Flight to Forever (1950) / Poul Anderson;
About the Authors (The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg