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1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) |
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"A Herman Graf book." |
| Contents |
Introduction: dancing through the apocalypse / by Robert Silverberg -- The hum / by Rick Hautala -- Salvador / by Lucius Shepard -- We can get them for you wholesale / by Neil Gaiman -- The big flash / by Norman Spinrad -- Kindness / by Lester del Rey -- The underdweller / by William F. Nolan -- Lucifer / by Roger Zelazny -- To the storming gulf / by Gregory Benford -- The feast of Saint Janis / by Michael Swanwick -- The wheel / by John Wyndham -- Jody after the war / by Edward Bryant -- Salvage / by Orson Scott Card -- By fools like me / by Nancy Kress -- The store of the worlds / by Robert Sheckley -- Dark, dark were the tunnels / by George R.R. Martin -- "If I forget thee, oh Earth -- " / by Arthur C. Clarke -- Afterward / by John Helfers -- When we went to see the end of the world / by Robert Silverberg -- Flight to forever / by Poul Anderson. |
| Summary |
Before The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world's best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang. The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries, including Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, and more. Relive these childhood classics or discover them here for the first time. Each story details the eerie political, social, and environmental destruction of our world. |
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End of the world -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
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End of the world. (OCoLC)fst00909634
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction, American.
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Science fiction, English.
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Apocalyptic literature.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Greenberg, Martin Harry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: End of the world. New York : Skyhorse Pub., ©2010 9781602399679 (DLC) 2010006101 (OCoLC)464580015 |
| ISBN |
9781441698544 (electronic bk.) |
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144169854X (electronic bk.) |
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