The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalpytic Science Fiction

Michael Kelahan

ISBN 10: 1435125924 / ISBN 13: 9781435125926

Published by Sterling, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalpytic Science Fiction
• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1435125924
• ISBN 13: 9781435125926
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A century-and-more ago, while some people pondered the pinnacle that civilization had attained, others worried how it would come crashing down. Many of the era's best writers gave shape to those fears in wildly speculative stories that envisioned unthinkable fates and spectacular dooms for our planet and its people. The End of the World collects twenty-one classic stories and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the Earth's end times erupt in fire, frost, flood, famine-and worse. Dramatic, tragic, exhilarating, and transcendent, the provocative stories in this volume offer thrilling accounts of global catastrophes, natural disasters, science run amok, and shocking cataclysms as only the most imaginative writers could conceive.