The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF

The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF

There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself.

Contents:

When we went to see the end of the world - Robert Silverberg

The End of the World - Sushma Joshi

The Clockwork Atom Bomb - Dominic Green

Bloodletting - Kate Wilhelm

When Sysadmins ruled the World - Cory Doctorow

The Rain at the End of the World - Dale Bailey

The Flood - Linda Nagata

The End of the World Show - David Barnett

Fermi and Frost - Frederik Pohl

Sleepover - Alastair Reynolds

The Last Sunset - Geoffrey Landis

Moments of Inertia - William Barton

The Books - Kage Baker

Pallbearer - Robert Reed

And the Deep Blue Sea - Elizabeth Bear

The Meek - Damien Broderick

The Man who Walked Home - James Tiptree JR

A Pail of Air - Fritz Leiber

Guardians of the Phoenix - Eric Brown

Life in the Anthropocene - Paul di Filippo

Terraforming Terra - Jack Williamson

World Without End - F Gwynplaine MacIntyre

The Children of Time - Stephen Baxter

The Star called Wormwood - Elizabeth Counihan