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Presents a collection of short stories from such authors as Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, John Langan, and Octavia E. Butler that focus on the end of the world.
Octavia E. Butler: El sonido de las palabras; Orson Scott Card: Chatarra; Paolo Bacigalupe: Gente de arena y escoria; M. Rickert: Pan y bombas; Jonathan Lethem: De cómo logramos entrar en la ciudad y salir de ella; George R. R. Martin: Oscuros, oscuros eran los túneles; Tobias S. Buckell: Esperando al Zephyr; Jack McDevitt: Nunca desfallezcáis; Cory Doctorow: Cuando los Admindesis gobernaron la Tierra; James Van Pelt: Las ultimas formas-o; Richard Kadrey: Naturaleza muerta con Apocalipsis; Catherine Wells: Los Ángeles de Artie; Jerry Oltion: El juicio pasó; Gene Wolfe: Modo silencio; Nancy Kress: Inercia; Elizabeth Bear: Y el profundo mar azul; Carol Emshwiller: Asesinos; Neal Barret Jr.: El circo ambulante de Ginny Caderasdulces; Dale Bailey: El fin del mundo tal como lo conocemos; David Grigg: Una canción antes del ocaso; John Langan: Episodio siete: La última defensa contra la jauría en el reino de las flores púrpura
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Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are said to be the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse--Armageddon, the End of the World. -- from the Introduction
(Introduction): Famine. Death. War. Pestilence.
I want to tell you about the end of war, the degeneration of mankind, and the death of the Messiah -- an epic story, deserving thousands of pages and a whole shelf of volumes, but you (if there are any "you" later on to read this) will have to settle for the freeze-dried version.
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If you examine the copyright page of this anthology, you'll note that just two of the stories in this volume were written in the '90s. On the other hand, more than half the stories were originally published since the turn of the millennium. So why the resurgence? Is it because the political climate now is reminiscent of the climate during the Cold War? During times of war and global unease, is it that much easier to imagine a depopulated world, a world destroyed by humanity's own hand?
Is that all there is to it, or is there something more What is it that draws us to those bleak landscapes - the wastelands of post-apocalyptic literature? To me, the appeal is obvious: the desire for a new frontier. It also allows us to start over from scratch, to wipe the slate clean and see what the world may have been like if we had known what we know now.
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Presents a collection of short stories from such authors as Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, John Langan, and Octavia E. Butler that focus on the end of the world.
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