Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse - ed. John Joseph Adams

Category: (Post)apocalyptic, Anthology, Horror
Language: English
Keywords: 2008 Gene Wolfe George R. R. Martin Octavia E. Butler Stephen King

Written by ed. John Joseph Adams
Read by J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Hillary Huber, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, Judy Young
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Edited by John Joseph Adams
Read by J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Hillary Huber, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki & Judy Young
Encode: mp3 - 64kbps, Mono, 22 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 24
Total Play time: 16:58:57

Anthology #225
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From Goodreads

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 Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: The nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse.
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. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre’s core.

Stories in this collection:

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