Summary
The new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, featuring never-before-published stories and curated reprints by some of the genre's most popular and critically-acclaimed authors. In WASTELANDS: THE NEW APOCALYPSE, veteran anthology editor John Joseph Adams is once again our guide through the wastelands using his genre and editorial expertise to curate his finest collection of post-apocalyptic short fiction yet. Whether the end comes via nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, or cosmological disaster, these stories explore the extraordinary trials and tribulations of those who survive. Featuring never-before-published tales by: Veronica Roth, Hugh Howey, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Richard Kadrey, Scott Sigler, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Meg Elison, Greg van Eekhout, Wendy N. Wagner, Jeremiah Tolbert, and Violet Allen--plus, recent reprints by: Carmen Maria Machado, Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kami Garcia, Charlie Jane Anders, Catherynne M. Valente, Jack Skillingstead, Sofia Samatar, Maureen F. McHugh, Nisi Shawl, Adam-Troy Castro, Dale Bailey, Susan Jane Bigelow, Corinne Duyvis, Shaenon K. Garrity, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Darcie Little Badger, Timothy Mudie, and Emma Osborne. Continuing in the tradition of WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, these 34 stories ask: What would life be like after the end of the world as we know it?
Contents
Introduction / John Joseph AdamsBullet point / Elizabeth Bear
The red thread / Sofia Samatar
Expedition 83 / Wendy N. Wagner
The last to matter / Adam-Troy Castro
Not this war, not this world / Jonathan Maberry
Where would you be now / Carrie Vaughn
The elephants' crematorium / Timothy Mudie
Bones of gossamer / Hugh Howey
As good as new / Charlie Jane Anders
One day only / Tananarive Due
Black, their regalia / Darcie Little Badger
The plague / Ken Liu
Four Kittens / Jeremiah Tolbert
The eyes of the flood / Susan Jane Bigelow
The last garden / Jack Skillingstead
Through sparks in morning's dawn / Tobias S. Buckell
Cannibal acts / Maureen F. McHugh
Echo / Veronica Roth
Shooting the apocalypse / Paolo Bacigalupi
The hungry earth / Carmen Maria Machado
Last chance / Nicole Kornher-Stace
A series of images from a ruined city at the end of the world / Violet Allen
Come on down / Meg Elison
Don't pack hope / Emma Osborne
Polly wanna cracker? / Greg van Eekhout
Otherwise / Nisi Shawl
And the rest of us wait / Corinne Duyvis
The last child / Scott Sigler
So sharp, so bright, so final / Seanan McGuire
Burn 3 / Kami Garcia
Snow / Dale Bailey
The air is chalk Richard Kadrey
The future is blue / Catherynne M. Valente
Francisca Montoya's almanac of things that can kill you / Shaenon K. Garrity.
Additional Information
| Series | Sci-Fi audio |
| Subjects |
End of the world
-- Fiction.
Audiobooks. |
| Publisher | Prince Frederick, Md. :Recorded Books,2019 |
| Edition | Unabridged. |
| Other Titles | New apocalypse |
| Contributors |
Adams, John Joseph,
1976- editor. Allen, Violet, author. Anders, Charlie Jane, author. Bacigalupi, Paolo, author. Bailey, Dale, author. Bear, Elizabeth, author. Bigelow, Susan Jane, author. Buckell, Tobias S., author. Castro, Adam-Troy, author. Due, Tananarive, 1966- author. Duyvis, Corinne, author. Elison, Meg, author. Garcia, Kami, author. Garrity, Shaenon K., author. Howey, Hugh, author. Kadrey, Richard, author. Kornher-Stace, Nicole, author. Little Badger, Darcie, author. Liu, Ken, 1976- author. Maberry, Jonathan, author. Machado, Carmen Maria, author. McGuire, Seanan, author. McHugh, Maureen F., author. Mudie, Timothy, author. Osborne, Emma, author. Roth, Veronica, author. Samatar, Sofia, author. Shawl, Nisi, author. Sigler, Scott, author. Skillingstead, Jack, 1955- author. Tolbert, Jeremiah, 1977- author. Valente, Catherynne M., 1979- author. Van Eekhout, Greg, author. Vaughn, Carrie, author. Wagner, Wendy N., author. Recorded Books, Inc., publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Performed by various narrators. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). Title from container. |
| Description |
20 audio discs (22 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 9781980044048 198004404X |
| Other | Classic View |