Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse
Contains:

[End of the Whole Mess](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650789W/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess) / Stephen King --	
Salvage / Orson Scott Card --	
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 --	
Never despair / Jack McDevitt --	
When Sysdmins 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.
science fiction, aquifers, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, fiction
Cory Doctorow, John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, M. Rickert, Jonathan Lethem, George R. R. Martin, Tobias S. Buckell, James Van Pelt, Catherine Wells, Jerry Oltion, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Carol Emshwiller, Neal Barrett Jr., David Grigg, John Langan
From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.


2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. || Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. || American science fiction and fantasy writer || George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.

Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. His first novel, Dying of the Light, set the tone for most of his future work; it is set on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun. This story, and many of Martin's others, have a strong sense of melancholy. His characters are often unhappy, or at least unsatisfied - trying to stay idealistic in a ruthless world. Many have elements of tragic heroes in them. Reviewer T. M. Wagner writes, "Let it never be said Martin doesn't share Shakespeare's fondness for the senselessly tragic." This gloominess can be an obstacle for some readers. The Inchoatus Group writes, "If this absence of joy is going to trouble you, or you’re looking for something more affirming, then you should probably seek elsewhere."

([Source][1])


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin || Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is a science fiction author from Eugene, Oregon, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the Star Trek series. He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and also writes under the pen name "Ryan Hughes." || Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*.

Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic faith. 

Primarily recognized for his science fiction and fantasy works, Wolfe received a litany of recognition in those genres including the British Science Fiction, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Awards. In 2012 he was recognized as the 29th Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 

Information from [Tor Publishing][1] and [The New Yorker][2].


  [1]: https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/
  [2]: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius || American science fiction writer || An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.

[Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]:
Octavia E Butler (1947–2006)

> I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black woman who time-travels and saves the life of her slaveholder ancestor, but it is, in Butler's words, "a grim fantasy", not science fiction.

> Beginning in the 1970s, Butler wrote three sequences of novels: the Patternist books, the Lilith's Brood series and the Parable novels (incomplete at her tragic death in 2006). Critically respected, she won the Hugo and Nebula awards, received a Clarke nomination, the PEN lifetime achievement award and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. A serious writer working in a field that is seldom taken seriously, Butler addressed biological control, gender, humanity's relationship with aliens, genetics and even the development of a fictional religion. Her narratives leave space for the reader's involvement while exploring the nature of change. They gaze unflinchingly on power dynamics. "Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles," Butler stated, "and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together." Butler's writing is courageous, stimulating and infused with a rare purity of intention. Crushingly, she died at the height of her powers. [Bloodchild and Other Stories][2] is a good place to begin discovering her work.


  [1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice
  [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL35621W/Bloodchild_and_other_stories