Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

by Adams, John Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781783291519
• ISBN10: 1783291516
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2016-06-28
• Publisher: Titan Books

Summary

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT... 

For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. From David Brin's seminal The Postman to Hugh Howey's Deep Blood Kettle and Tananarive Due's prescient Patient Zero, the end of the world continues to thrill. 

This companion volume to the critically acclaimed WASTELANDS offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction, with works by: 

Ann Aguirre 
Megan Arkenberg 
Paolo Bacigalupi 
Christopher Barzak
Lauren Beukes 
David Brin 
Orson Scott Card 
Junot Díaz 
Cory Doctorow 
Tananarive Due 
Toiya Kristen 
Finley Milo 
Joe R. Lansdale 
George R. R. Martin 
Jack McDevitt 
Seanan McGuire 
Maureen F. McHugh 
D. Thomas Minton 
Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling 
Ramsey Shehadeh 
Robert Silverberg

Award-winning editor John Joseph Adams has once again assembled a who’s who of short fiction, and the result is nothing short of mind-blowing. 

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PRAISE FOR WASTELANDS: Everything that is best about the trope, from bleak, empty worlds to beacons of hope. - Booklist. The best anthology of any kind I have read to date. - Grasping for the Wind. A great collection that gets my highest recommendation.- Bookgasm

Author Biography

Editor John Joseph Adams—called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble—is the bestselling editor of many anthologies such as Epic: Legends of Fantasy, Wastelands, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He the editor of Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine, which published two Nebula Award finalists and a Hugo Award finalist in its first year.