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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)

John Joseph Adams (Editor),

Cory Doctorow (Contributor)

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Aug 20, 2009 Zach rated it liked it

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, short-stories

The worst:

The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King: Reviewers keep talking about what a great story this was to open the collection. Nope. It's crap.

Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell: This was a really short and seemingly inoffensive story about a girl trying to escape her family and get on a wind-driven landship out of town, but I hated it. I don't even really know why. It was like 4 pages long but it managed to infuriate me anyway.

Salvage by Orson Scott Card: Mormon propaganda.

A Son ...more

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Dec 31, 2009 Sandi rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010, cross-genre, post-apocalyptic-dystopian

I admit it, I love post-apocalyptic fiction. I think my fascination with the subject has a lot to do with a book I got through one of those Scholastic Book Club flyers when I was in elementary school. It was Daybreak 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton. I went on to reading Logan's Run and The Masque of the Red Death among other post-apocalyptic fiction that I no longer remember. Growing up in the Sixties and Seventies, apocalypse seemed like a very real possibility.

Naturally, a short story collection lik ...more

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Nov 09, 2014 Silver Thistle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, short-story, anthology

I'm not really a short story fan...... usually. I am, however, a fan of post apocalyptic/end of the world/last man standing type fiction, so chose this book hoping to find a few good stories to tide me over until I found my next 'currently reading'.

The stories have been well selected and although they all follow a similar subject matter, they're all so different and even the very, very short stories stay with you after you've read them. It was interesting to find a few new takes on the genre and ...more

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Oct 16, 2008 Schnaucl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, anthology, post-apocalyptic, library, read_2008, later_purchased, november, favorites, recommended_reading

I thought this was an excellently put together anthology. Every story was interesting and well written and actually dealt with some form of world wide apocalypse. (I've read other anthologies where one or more authors decide to make it a "personal apocalypse" and while those stories may be fine, they do not belong in an apocalypse anthology in my opinion).

I particularly enjoyed the first story as well as "When Sys-Admins Controlled the World" (though I did note one glaring error that really sho ...more

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May 29, 2011 Rebecca rated it liked it

Shelves: post-apocalypse

Quick stories that filled my need for apocalyptic fiction. And bonus list of recommended reading at the end.

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Jul 29, 2008 William rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2010, have-paperback, science-fiction, fantasy, apocalyptic, dystopia

Another good anthology put together by Adams. The man knows his subject and puts together an impressive collection. Nuclear holocaust, famine, plague, religious, they are all represented here. This will bring out the despair in anyone who picks it up.

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