Duration: 17:00:00. "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container. Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Hillary Huber, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Lisa Pitts, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, and Judy Young.
Contents:
Episode seven : Last stand against the pack in the kingdom of the purple flowers / John Langan. People of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Bread and bombs / M. Rickert -- How we got in town and out again / Jonathan Lethem -- Dark, dark were the tunnels / George R.R. Martin -- Waiting for the Zephyr / Tobias S. Buckell -- Salvage / Orson Scott Card -- Never despair / Jack McDevitt -- When Sysadmins ruled the Earth / Cory Doctorow -- Last of the O-forms / James Van Pelt -- Still life with Apocalypse / Richard Kadrey -- Artie's angels / Catherine Wells -- Judgment passed / Jerry Oltion -- Mute / Gene Wolfe -- Inertia / Nancy Kress -- And the deep blue sea / Elizabeth Bear -- Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler -- Killers / Carol Emshwiller -- Ginny Sweethips' flying circus / Neal Barrett, Jr. -- End of the word as we know it / Dale Bailey -- Song before sunset / David Grigg -- Episode seven : Last stand against the pack in the kingdom of the purple flowers / John Langan.
Summary:
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence--the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon--these are our guides through the Wastelands. Gathering together the best postapocalyptic 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. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.