The Apocalypse Reader

by Taylor, Justin

• ISBN13: 9781560259596
• ISBN10: 1560259590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-22
• Publisher: Running Press Adult

Summary

These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.

Author Biography

Justin Taylor is the Books Editor for Econoculture.com. His writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications, including American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Punk Planet, the Brooklyn Rail, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He earned his MFA in fiction from The New School and lives in Brooklyn. Visit him online at www.justindtaylor.net.

Table of Contents

Nyarlathotep	p. 1
The apocalypse commentary of Bob Paisner	p. 5
Sweethearts	p. 27
Fraise, Menthe, Et Poivre 1978	p. 31
What is it when God speaks?	p. 43
Kraftmark	p. 45
The hook	p. 58
Sixteen small apocalypses	p. 67
The last man	p. 78
Earth's Holocaust	p. 82
I always go to particular places	p. 102
An accounting	p. 106
Square of the sun	p. 118
The end	p. 123
Some approaches to the problem of the shortage of time	p. 143
Think warm thoughts	p. 148
The ash gray proclamation	p. 149
Pole shift	p. 177
Miss Kansas on judgment day	p. 179
The star	p. 187
When we went to see the end of the world by Dawnie Morningside, age 11 1/4	p. 198
I am 'I don't know what I am' and you are afraid of me and so am I	p. 204
The escape - a tale of 1755	p. 206
So we are very concerned	p. 231
Gigantic	p. 233
The end of the future	p. 243
Crossing into Cambodia	p. 254
'80s Lilies	p. 272
These zombies are not a metaphor	p. 276
The rapid advance of sorrow	p. 279
The conversation of Eiros and Charmion	p. 286
Apoca Ca Lyp Se : a dip tych	p. 292
After all	p. 300
Save me from the pious and the vengeful	p. 307
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