[Across the Universe #0.1 (The Other Elder 01] • After

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe’s wake—whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future.

New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Segment by Genevieve Valentine

After the Cure by Carrie Ryan

Valedictorian by N.K. Jemisin

Visiting Nelson by Katherine Langrish

All I Know of Freedom by Carol Emshwiller

The Other Elder by Beth Revis

The Great Game at the End of the World by Matthew Kressel

Reunion by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Faint Heart by Sarah Rees Brennan

Blood Drive by Jeffrey Ford

Reality Girl by Richard Bowes

Hw th’Irth Wint Wrong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.guv by Gregory Maguire

Rust With Wings by Steven Gould

The Easthound by Nalo Hopkinson

Gray by Jane Yolen

Before by Carolyn Dunn

Fake Plastic Trees by Caitlin R. Kiernan

You Won’t Feel a Thing by Garth Nix

The Marker by Cecil Castellucci