Edited by John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is an anthology of stories about human survival after the collapse of civilization through one means or another. The story dates are their copyright dates. The anthology includes a bibliography of post-apocalyptic fiction. The book's Web site includes the edictor's introduction to each story, story excerpts, information about the story authors and a book video trailer created by Tobias S. Buckell, with music by Jack Kincaid.
The stories are:
"The End of the Whole Mess" (1986) by Stephen King
"Salvage" (1986) by Orson Scott Card
"The People of Sand and Slag" (2004) by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Bread and Bombs" (2003) by M. Rickert
"How We Got in Town and Out Again" (1996) by Jonathan Lethem
"Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels" (1973) by George R.R. Martin
"Waiting for the Zephyr" (2002) by Tobias S. Buckell
"Never Despair" (1997) by Jack McDevitt
"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" (2006) by Cory Doctorow
"The Last of the O-Forms" (2002) by James Van Pelt
"Still Life with Apocalypse" (2002) by Richard Kadrey
"Artie's Angels" (2001) by Catherine Wells Dimenstein
"Judgment Passed" (2008) by Jerry Oltion
"Mute" (2002) by Gene Wolfe
"Inertia" (1990) by Nancy Kress
"And the Deep Blue Sea" (2005) by Elizabeth Bear
"Speech Sounds" (1983) by Octavia E. Butler
"Killers" (2006) by Carol Emshwiller
"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" (1988) by Neal Barrett, Jr.
"The End of the World as We Know It" (2004) by Dale Bailey
"A Song Before Sunset" (1976) by David Rowland Grigg
"Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" (2007) by John Langan
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