Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

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