The End of the World
Stories of the Apocalypse
Skyhorse · Print & ebook · July 8, 2010
Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction.
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- Who it’s for
- Apocalyptic science fiction brings social unease and spectacular destruction into one story collection.
- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Short Stories, Short Story Anthologies
- Published
- Skyhorse, July 8, 2010
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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.
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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.
Doomsday Stories
Apocalyptic science fiction brings social unease and spectacular destruction into one story collection.
Come here for
- Classic science fiction imagining alien invasions, meteors, and nuclear fallout
- A gathering of early doomsday writers and later contemporaries
Expect
- World-ending scenarios viewed through political, social, and environmental ruin
- A range of voices, from early twentieth-century writers to Neil Gaiman
Where it sits
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 93% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Short Stories | 63% |
| Short Story Anthologies | 45% |
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Publisher categories
- Fantasy Anthologies
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Sci-Fi Short Stories
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Authors
- Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Published
- July 8, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Fantasy Anthologies