How We Got Into Town and Out Again Summary
GENERAL INFORMATION
Title: WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE
Author: Diverse
PAGES: 352
PUBLISHER: NIGHT SHADE BOOKS
Year: 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastelands:_Stories_of_the_Apocalypse
www.johnjosephadams.com/wastelands
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This is an e-book I bought from www.kobo.com.
BLURB FROM THE COVER
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon these are our guides through the Wastelands…From the Volume of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the earth, weaving tales of catastrophe, anarchy, and calamity. Gathering together the best postal service-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's nearly renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Factor Wolfe, Orson Scott Menu, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen Male monarch, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain homo in the wake of Armageddon.
EXTRACT
I want to tell you about the end of war, the degeneration of mankind, and the death of the Messiah – an epic story, deserving thousands of pages and a whole sheaf of volumes, only you (if there are any 'you lot' later on on to read this) will have to settle for the freeze-dried version. The direct injection works very fast. I effigy I've got somewhere betwixt forty-2 minutes and two hours, depending on my blood-type. I think it's A, which should give me a piddling more time, but I'll exist god-damned if I can recall for sure. If information technology turns out to be O, y'all could exist in for a lot of blank pages, my hypothetical friend.
(THE End OF THE WHOLE MESS By STEPHEN Rex)
REVIEW
I thought Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse was a bully drove of stories. Every story is strong. I think this is i of the very few times when I've read a collection of stories and accept enjoyed every one. In that location wasn't 1 stinker in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Adams has put together an impressive collection.
Similar all collections there were stories in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse that stood out, that were a step or two above good and in some cases even higher than really good. Stories that make this drove worth reading.
The offset of these stories is The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King. Adams chooses to open up this collection with this story from Male monarch'southward first collection, Dark Shift. This is 1 of my favourite King stories. I've read it at least a dozen times and have seen the TV adaptation in Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King. Suffice to see I was delighted Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse opened with such a blindside.
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi is i of the creepiest stories I've ever read. There were some funny moments when future humans observe a existent domestic dog and decide to continue it as a pet. In this story the people aren't quite recognisable as human. They tin change their appearance at will including growing actress limbs or sprouting blades all over their peel. They are fascinated because the dog tin feel pain and can't alter its shape. The ending is predictable as there is nowhere else for the story to go but nevertheless heart-wrenching.
Bread and Bombs by M Rickert is i of the saddest stories I've ever read. Rickert offers a real gut-wrencher with this 1. I didn't really get a sense of the apocalypse from Bread and Bombs and this is more than of an alternative history tale. The story is distressing enough and the ending completely shocked me. I never saw it coming. I was stunned.
Another vivid story was Dark, Nighttime Were The Tunnels by George R R Martin. I've only read one other piece by Martin, The Skin Trade and it astounded me so I expected good things from this story. Martin didn't disappoint. The concept is simple plenty. What if human who had existed in the dark for generations met people from the world in a higher place who had weapons and light? Sort of similar caveman meets modern man. The results offered in Dark, Nighttime Were The Tunnels did not disappoint. The ending is not a surprise simply still cut to the bone.
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow is one of my favourites in this collection. I just loved what Doctorow offered with this story. This is a brilliant, original story. Some of the calculator jargon at starting time was lost on me but it didn't take me long to go on board. I thought this was a very clever, absorbing piece. I loved information technology.
Artie's Angels by Catherine Wells is as well one of my favourites. What a brilliant little story. I liked the sense of hope there is throughout the story thanks to Artie and his band of angels and what they offer people only struggling to make information technology through the twenty-four hour period. The ending was also a tear jerker. Hats off to Wells for offering a piece of very different post-apocalypse fiction.
These were the stories that really stood out as I read Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. The other stories were all very well written and enjoyable. The above stories striking the bar a little chip higher.
Last THOUGHTS
I am quite a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction. I've read a few novels including The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Mr Shivers past Robert Jackson Bennett and Stephen King'due south Dark Tower series. I thought I would enjoy this collection and I wasn't disappointed. I've visited the editor, John Joseph Adams's website. He's been involved in a few collections I want to read.
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