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Synopsis

Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang.

The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, and more. Relive these childhood classics or discover them here for the first time. Each story details the eerie political, social, and environmental destruction of our world.

Contents:

1 • Dancing Through the Apocalypse • [Silverberg's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Robert Silverberg

8 • The Hum • (2007) • short story by Rick Hautala

16 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard

34 • We Can Get Them for You Wholesale • (1984) • short story by Neil Gaiman

43 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad

66 • Kindness • (1944) • short story by Lester del Rey

81 • The Underdweller • (1974) • short story by William F. Nolan (variant of Small World 1957)

94 • Lucifer • (1964) • short story by Roger Zelazny

102 • To the Storming Gulf • (1985) • novella by Gregory Benford

151 • The Feast of Saint Janis • (1980) • novelette by Michael Swanwick

181 • The Wheel • (1952) • short story by John Wyndham

188 • Jody After the War • (1972) • short story by Edward Bryant

194 • Salvage • [The Mormon Sea] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card

214 • By Fools Like Me • (2007) • short story by Nancy Kress

228 • The Store of the Worlds • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley

235 • Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels • (1973) • short story by George R. R. Martin

252 • If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ... • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...")

257 • Afterward • (2006) • short story by John Helfers

262 • When We Went to See the End of the World • (1972) • short story by Robert Silverberg

271 • Flight to Forever • (1950) • novella by Poul Anderson

321 • About the Authors (The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg

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