Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (2008)

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 Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. 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 wak... full descriptione of Armageddon. (less description)

Author: Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell

Categories: Short Stories, World Literature, Science Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy