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Cover image for Wastelands 2 : more stories of the apocalypse / edited by John Joseph Adams.
Title:
Wastelands 2 : more stories of the apocalypse / edited by John Joseph Adams.
Author:
Adams, John Joseph, 1976- editor.
ISBN:
9781783291519
Physical Description:
683 pages ; 18 cm
General Note:
Short stories chiefly by American authors, with one South African (Lauren Beukes).
Contents:
Introduction / The Amarisk Hunter / Deep Blood Kettle / Animal Husbandry / "--for a single yesterday" / Chiswick Messiah / Colliding Branes / Ellie / Foundation / Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) / A Beginner's Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse / Wondrous Days / Dreams in Dust / By Fools Like Me / Jimmy's Roadside Cafe / The Elephants of Poznan / The Postman / When We Went To See the End of the World / The Revelation of Morgan Stern / Final Exam / A Flock of Birds / Patient Zero / Soulless in His Sight / Outer Rims / Advertising at the End of the World / How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth / Tight Little Stiches in a Dead Man's Back / After the Apocalypse / The Traditional / Monstro / Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince
Abstract:
"This companion volume to the critically acclaimed Wastelands, offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction."--Back cover.
Subject Term:
End of the world -- Fiction.

Armageddon -- Fiction.

Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.
Added Author:
Adams, John Joseph, 1976-

Container of (work): Bacigalupi, Paolo. Tamarisk Hunter.

Container of (work): Howey, Hugh. Deep blood kettle.

Container of (work): McGuire, Seanan. Animal husbandry.

Container of (work): Martin, George R. R. ... for a single yesterday.

Container of (work): Beukes, Lauren. Chislehurst Messiah.

Container of (work): Rucker, Rudy v. B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946- Colliding branes.

Container of (work): McDevitt, Jack. Ellie.

Container of (work): Aguirre, Ann. Foundation.

Container of (work): Doctorow, Cory. Beat me daddy (eight to the bar)

Container of (work): Barzak, Christopher. Beginner's guide to survival before, during, and after the apocalypse.

Container of (work): Valentine, Genevieve. Wondrous days.

Container of (work): Minton, D. Thomas, 1969- Dreams in dust.

Container of (work): Kress, Nancy. By fools like me.

Container of (work): Shehadeh, Ramsey, 1970- Jimmy's Roadside Café.

Container of (work): Card, Orson Scott. Elephants of Poznan.

Container of (work): Brin, David. Postman.

Container of (work): Silverberg, Robert. When we went to see the end of the world.

Container of (work): Yant, Christie. Revelation of Morgan Stern.

Container of (work): Arkenberg, Megan. Final exam.

Container of (work): Van Pelt, James, 1954- Flock of birds.

Container of (work): Due, Tananarive, 1966- Patient zero.

Container of (work): Fowler, Milo James, 1976- Soulless in his sight.

Container of (work): Finley, Toiya Kristen. Outer rims.

Container of (work): Kehrli, Keffy R. M. Advertising at the end of the world.

Container of (work): Swirsky, Rachel. How the world became quiet (Short story)

Container of (work): Lansdale, Joe R., 1951- Tight little stitches in a dead man's back.

Container of (work): McHugh, Maureen F. After the apocalypse (Short story)

Container of (work): Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977- Traditional.

Container of (work): Díaz, Junot, 1968- Monstro.

Container of (work): Kerr, Jake, 1967- Biographical fragments of the life of Julian Prince.
Added Uniform Title:
Preceded by (work): Wastelands (Anthology)