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With this well-chosen set of postapocalyptic stories, editor Adams provides a bit of everything that is best about the trope, from bleak, empty worlds to beacons of hope in an otherwise awful situation. Only Jerry Oltions Judgment Passed, about...
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With this well-chosen set of postapocalyptic stories, editor Adams provides a bit of everything that is best about the trope, from bleak, empty worlds to beacons of hope in an otherwise awful situation. Only Jerry Oltions Judgment Passed, about what happens when a space expedition returns to an Earth to which Jesus has returned, and the rapture has come without them, is original to the collection. Stephen Kings bleak The End of the Whole Mess opens, John Langans much more recent Episode Seven: Last Stand against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers closes, and they are wildly different. Highlights in between include Octavia Butlers Speech Sounds, in which civilization has ended because a disease has made most people unable to talk, read, or do any number of once-taken-for-granted things, and Elizabeth Bears And the Deep Blue Sea, a brilliant take on a world laid waste and a devils bargain that treads in Roger Zelaznys manic footsteps. A well-chosen selection... See less
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