"Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving." SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Nancy Kress at "Inertia" and James Van Pelt at "The Last of the O-Forms." Each story contains an introduction by Adams.
A book which explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in a postapocalyptic world. Butler, and Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by John Joseph. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Octavia E. An anthology which gathers together some of the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades by renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. SIGNED first edition - Third printing, a trade paperback original. Buckell / Never Despair by Jack McDevitt / When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow / The Last of the O-Forms by James van Pelt / Still Life with Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey / Artie's Angels by Catherine Wells / For Further Reading. Martin / Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Rickert / How We Got In Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem / Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. The End of the Word as We know It by Dale Bailey / A Song Before Sunset by David Grigg / Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers by John Langan / The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King / Salvage by Orson Scott Card / The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi / Bread and Bombs by M.
Butler / Killers by Carol Emshwiller / Ginny Sweetthips' Flyng Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr. Contents include: Intro by John Joseph Adams / Judgment Passed by Jerry Oltion / Mute by Gene wolfe / Inertia by Nancy Kress / And the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth Bear / Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Large soft cover/trade, square clean and tight, flat uncreased spine, 331 pages, Near Fine condition. Daniel Kvasznicsa cover artist, (illustrator).