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The definitive anthology of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades. Featuring New York Times bestsellers Stephen King, George R.R. Martin and Orson Scott Card, edited by award-winning anthologist John Joseph Adams. 

Prescient tales of Armageddon and its aftermath, by twenty-two of today's finest writers, including:

Paolo Bacigalupi
Neal Barrett, Jr.
Tobias S. Buckell
Cory Doctorow
David Grigg
Dale Bailey 
Elizabeth Bear 
Richard Kadrey
John Langan
Jerry Oltion
James Van Pelt

Together they reveal what it will mean to survive and remain human after the end of the world...

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John Joseph Adams is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and critic. His anthology The Living Dead was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and was named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble.com labeled Adams "The Reigning King of the Anthology World". He was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, Short Form, and his magazine Lightspeed Magazine was a finalist for Best Semiprozine.
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"This collection of short stories is a retrospective of possible post-apocalyptic scenarios, ranging from the immediate aftermath to far, far in the future. While a few horror and dark fantasy stories have been thrown in the mix, most of these excellent selections are straightforward science fiction depicting various ways of coping with the end of everything." --The Huffington Post

"[Wastelands] is arguably my favorite anthology of all time - just packed with speculative masterworks." --Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble.com

"John Joseph Adams's new anthology works quite nicely as a selection of such new stories of the end of the world. [...] A first-rate anthology that quite convincingly represents the more recent SFnal view of the apocalypse." --Locus Magazine

"Few books have had the impact on me that Wastelands did. ... A great collection that gets my highest recommendation." --Bookgasm

"I can't help but give this collection the highest recommendation. I think this will be a cornerstone for most reader's shelves." --SFF World

From Stephen King's take on the end of humanity through science gone wrong ('The End of the Whole Mess') to John Langan's horrific tale of a small group's valiant last stand against an unbeatable enemy ('Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers'), the 22 stories in this end-of-days anthology run the gamut from nuclear devastation to environmental debacle to the Second Coming. Also featuring Orson Scott Card, Octavia E. Butler, and Gene Wolfe, and including an original story by Jerry Oltion ('Judgment Passed'), this title belongs in most sf or short fiction collections. --Library Journal

Wastelands is an exceptional anthology. In scope and vision it can only be compared to Harlan Ellison-s Dangerous Visions. Like that famed anthology, Wastelands collects some of the best stories of a genre, each with an introduction by the editor that sets the stage for the events that unfold. The stories are full of depth, but are also so well crafted that they are not preachy. None of the stories will disappoint the reader who picks up this anthology. ...

I highly recommend this anthology for anyone who enjoys reading anything. A lot of these authors I had not read before and I now want to seek out their novels at the bookstore. Each story is unique, and while all share the same basic frame, each writer has been able to pull a completely different conclusion about or assessment of humanity. Some are chilling while others are hopeful, but each will show the reader a facet of himself or herself if they are willing to see it. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is the best anthology of any kind I have read to date. --Grasping for the Wind

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  • PublisherTitan Books
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1783291486
  • ISBN 13 9781783291489
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Number of pages592
  • EditorAdams John Joseph
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