Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
by Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
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Author: Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, Jack McDevitt, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, Tobias S. BuckellEditor: John Joseph Adams
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-01-15
ISBN: 1597801054
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Book Reviews of Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Book Review: Varied Post-Apocalyptic Viewpoints
Summary: 4 Stars
3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
My biggest problem with this collection is that many of the stories are recently written and from the pages of Asimov's and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. End result, I'd read 80% of these or so in the past several years.
The collection gives a wide variety of viewpoints of apocalypse types and as often as not focuses on life after the apocalypse rather than the actual apocalypse. They run the gamut from the strangeness of Ginny Sweethips Flying Circus and The Last of the O-Forms to the heartbreak of the King and the Bacigalupi works. Paolo Bacigalupi's is perhaps the best portray of the lack of humanity and empathy of a post-apocalypse post-human race. In fact loss of humanity is a theme running through several of the works in this book.
With any collection it can grow wearisome reading of the same subject matter over and over, and despite the varied pieces in this collection that is also true. Perhaps more so given the grim subject matter of this collection.
However most stories are of high quality, and I can highly recommend this collection, particularly if you have not been keeping up with short fiction in the past decade or so.
Summary of Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.General Books
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