Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948164433 ISBN 13: 9780948164439

Publisher: Constable and Robinson, 1987

Synopsis

In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget. Miller’s incisive introduction and a thought-provoking and irreverent commentary are included. All stories are preceded by intros, written by Miller, which comment on the story to come, and sometimes also the story preceeding the note.
Contents:
Introduction: Forewarning (Beyond Armageddon) (1985) essay by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Salvador (1984) / short story by Lucius Shepard
The Store of the Worlds (1959) / short story by Robert Sheckley
The Big Flash (1969) / novelette by Norman Spinrad
Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) / novelette by Ward Moore
Day at the Beach (1959) / short story by Carol Emshwiller
The Wheel (1952) / short story by John Wyndham
Jody After the War (1972) / short story by Edward Bryant
The Terminal Beach (1964) / novelette by J. G. Ballard
Tomorrow's Children [Tomorrow's Children 1] (1947) / novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop
Heirs Apparent (1954) / novelette by Robert Abernathy
A Master of Babylon (1966) / novelette by Edgar Pangborn (variant of The Music Master of Babylon 1954)
Game Preserve (1957) / short story by Rog Phillips
By the Waters of Babylon (1937) / short fiction by Stephen Vincent Benét (variant of The Place of the Gods) [as by Stephen V. Benet]
There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury
To the Chicago Abyss (1963) / short story by Ray Bradbury
Lucifer (1964) / short story by Roger Zelazny
Eastward Ho! (1958) / short story by William Tenn
The Feast of Saint Janis (1980) / novelette by Michael Swanwick
"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ..." (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke
A Boy and His Dog [Vic and Blood 2] (1969) / novella by Harlan Ellison
My Life in the Jungle (1985) / short story by Jim Aikin



Also published as "Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead"

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About the Author

Martin H. Greenbergwas honored in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him "the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen." He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies andis the president of TEKNO books.He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

From Publishers Weekly

Miller, whose novel A Canticle for Leibowitz is a landmark of post-holocaust SF, opens this anthology of SF stories on nuclear war with a provocative and challenging introduction: he suggests that the bomb would be safer with Qaddafi than Reagan. This properly unsettles the reader for the following 21 imaginations of disaster. Arranged in a rough future chronology, they include such classics as J. G. Ballard's apocalyptic "Terminal Beach," Stephen Vincent Benet's vision of a ruined New York in "By the Waters of Babylon," Ray Bradbury's nostalgic "There Will Come Soft Rains" and Harlan Ellison's fierce "A Boy and His Dog." Where most seek metaphors of devastation, the less well known stories are sometimes grittier, for example, Lucius Shepard's "Salvador," on a possible future Vietnam, Jim Aiken's nasty "My Life in the Jungle" and Poul Anderson's 1946 "Tomorrow's Children," the only story here to mention the effect of nuclear winter and the story that deals most pragmatically and tragically with the human consequences of radiation-induced mutations. Altogether, a thought-provoking, varied and well chosen anthology. October 31
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Edition details

• Publisher: Constable and Robinson
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948164433
• ISBN 13: 9780948164439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Walter M. Miller Jr., Martin H. Greenberg