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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.0876208 EAN: 9781597801058 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1597801054 Label: Night Shade Books Manufacturer: Night Shade Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: January 15, 2008 Publisher: Night Shade Books Studio: Night Shade Books Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 wake of Armageddon. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Hope and hopelessness on the branches of the tree of timeWastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is a series of dark future tales written between the 1970's and 2008 by some of the most talented writers in science fiction, fantasy and horror. The book is full of haunting visions of survival at the end of humanity, survival after a great change in humanity and survival after a great reshaping of humanity. Of particular note, from my perspective was the extremely haunting The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi. Without giving away the ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent collectionI enjoyed every story in this collection. I would say my favorite was "When Sysadmins Rules the World", but each story had it's own strengths. The stories really rekindled my interest in post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Rating:  - A few really good...and a lot of so-soThis was a collection of short stories all somehow themed around an apocalpyse - something has gone horribly wrong with the world. I picked it up after enjoying "Earth Abides" by George Stewart so much. Overall some of the stories were good, some not so good, but on the whole I definitely like longer books as opposed to short stories. I'd rather really get to know characters and see a story unfold than the short stereotypes that are given in this type of collection with the "catchy" ... Read More Rating: - Some really great stories, littered with...waste.This book has several/numerous great short stories that take a varied look at, well, the end of the world. Fans of the genre may enjoy reading this, but only if they don't mind short stories rather than elaborate stories...which was my biggest complaint about the book. Interspersed throughout the good stories are lots of little mindless stories - some of which seem like they could be "the first 3 pages of the sixth chapter of an entire book." It's not that some of these don't have "endings" ... Read More Rating: - A fine collection of Apocalypse stories by great authorsWith anthologies, I normally list the Table Of Contents, however because it can be viewed by rolling your mouse over the second available image below the book picture, I won't list it. There are 22 stories in this collection, by such authors as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Nancy Kress, and many more. Each story begins with a short paragraph of notes and achievements by each author. Religion, Armageddon, virus, plague, bombs, accidents, incidents, pollutants, natural disaster, ... Read More |
