17 Stories About the End of the World

17 Stories About the End of the World

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17 short (sometimes very, very short) stories about the end of the world, by gods, war, pollution, alien invasion, robot insurrection, and passing away gently when time has run out. Writers of the Future winner Luc Reid offers the human side of the end of the world--even when there are no humans involved.
ebook, 42 pages
Published April 13th 2011 (first published April 12th 2011)
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Sarah (Workaday Reads)
This is a quick little collection of flash fiction about the world ending. I found some of the stories a little lacking in detail and hard to connect to.

I enjoyed the story On That Last Afternoon the most, which, ironically, is the only story where the world does not actually end. This story had a realism and humour that made it stand out from the others.
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Luc Reid is a Writers of the Future winner whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Brain Harvest, Abyss & Apex, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. He writes a column called "Brain Hacks for Writers" for Futurismic, is member of the flash fiction group The Daily Cabal, and founded the Codex online writers group, whose members garnered 8 Nebula nominations this year (none of wh...more
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