Wastelands

The New Apocalypse

Veronica Roth, Hugh Howey, Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785658969
• Print ISBN:
  9781785658952
• Subtopic: Science Fiction

The brilliant new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, for the first time including new stories by the edgiest modern writers. The new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, featuring never-before-published stories and curated reprints by some of the genre's most popular and critically-acclaimed authors. In WASTELANDS: THE NEW APOCALYPSE, veteran anthology editor John Joseph Adams is once again our guide through the wastelands using his genre and editorial expertise to curate his finest collection of post-apocalyptic short fiction yet. Whether the end comes via nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, or cosmological disaster, these stories explore the extraordinary trials and tribulations of those who survive. Featuring never-before-published tales by: Veronica Roth, Hugh Howey, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Richard Kadrey, Scott Sigler, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Meg Elison, Greg van Eekhout, Wendy N. Wagner, Jeremiah Tolbert, and Violet Allen—plus, recent reprints by: Carmen Maria Machado, Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kami Garcia, Charlie Jane Anders, Catherynne M. Valente, Jack Skillingstead, Sofia Samatar, Maureen F. McHugh, Nisi Shawl, Adam-Troy Castro, Dale Bailey, Susan Jane Bigelow, Corinne Duyvis, Shaenon K. Garrity, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Darcie Little Badger, Timothy Mudie, and Emma Osborne. Continuing in the tradition of WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, these 34 stories ask: What would life be like after the end of the world as we know it?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Also edited by John Joseph Adams
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Bullet Point
• The Red Thread
• Expedition 83
• The Last to Matter
• Not this War, Not this World
• Where Would You Be Now
• The Elephants’ Crematorium
• Bones of Gossamer
• As Good As New
• One Day Only
• Black, Their Regalia
• The Plague
• Four Kittens
• The Eyes of the Flood
• The Last Garden
• Through Sparks in Morning’s Dawn
• Cannibal Acts
• Echo
• Shooting the Apocalypse
• The Hungry Earth
• Last Chance
• A Series of Images from a Ruined City at the End of the World
• Come On Down
• Don’t Pack Hope
• Polly Wanna Cracker?
• Otherwise
• And the Rest of Us Wait
• The Last Child
• So Sharp, So Bright, So Final
• Burn 3
• Snow
• The Air Is Chalk
• The Future Is Blue
• Francisca Montoya’s Almanac of Things that Can Kill You
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editor
• Also Available from Titan Books