The Mammoth Book of the End of the World Author:Mike Ashley (Editor) Pre- and post-apocalyptic science fiction short stories about the end of all things, versions of crazy doomsday beliefs. Interesting contrast between the first half, about the fact of apocalypse, and the second half about what happened to the human race after it had happened, describing a degradation of human complexity under conditions of... more » survival: between conservative transcendentalists looking to the past and forward-looking trans-humanists.
Contents:
The End of All Things (2010) • essay by Mike Ashley;
When We Went to See the End of the World (1972) / Robert Silverberg;
The End of the World (2002) / Sushma Joshi;
The Clockwork Atom Bomb (2005) / Dominic Green;
Bloodletting (1994) / Kate Wilhelm;
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) / Cory Doctorow;
The Rain at the End of the World (1999) / Dale Bailey;
The Flood (1998) / Linda Nagata;
The End of the World Show (2006) / David Barnett;
Fermi and Frost (1985) / Frederik Pohl;
Sleepover (2010) / Alastair Reynolds;
The Last Sunset (1996) / Geoffrey A. Landis;
Moments of Inertia (2004) / William Barton;
The Books (2010) / Kage Baker;
Pallbearer (2010) / Robert Reed;
And the Deep Blue Sea (2005) / Elizabeth Bear;
The Meek (2004) / Damien Broderick;
The Man Who Walked Home (1972) / James Tiptree, Jr.;
A Pail of Air (1951) / Fritz Leiber;
Guardians of the Phoenix (2010) / Eric Brown;
Life in the Anthropocene (2010) / Paul Di Filippo;
Terraforming Terra (1998) / Jack Williamson;
World Without End (2010) / F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre;
The Children of Time (2005) / Stephen Baxter;
The Star Called Wormwood (2004) / Elizabeth Counihan.