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Summary: The ultimate apocalyptic short story collection
Review: This anthology contains the very best of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic short fiction, including such hard-to find classics as Harlan Elison's "A Boy and His Dog". Other personal favorites are Norman Spinrad's "The Big Flash", Edgar Pangborn's "A MAster of Babylon", Stephen Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon", William Tenn's "Eastward Ho!", Lucius Shepard's "Salvador" and... it's all there, really. Include an interesting and to-the-point foreword by editor Walter M. Miller (author of "A Canticle for Leibowitz"), and you've got the ultimate treat for a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction.
(Note: Published in the UK as "Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar" Robinson, 1985)
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Summary: Best reprint anthology of post-apocalyptic SF
Review: This book contains the following stories:"Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
"The Store of the Worlds" by Robert Sheckley
"The Big Flash" by Norman Spinrad
"Lot" by Ward Moore
"Day at the Beach" by Carol Emshwiller
"The Wheel" by John Wyndham
"Jody After the War" by Edward Bryant
"The Terminal Beach" by J. G. Ballard
"Tomorrow's Children" by Poul Anderson
"Heirs Apparent" by Robert Abernathy
"A Master of Babylon" by Edgar Pangborn
"Game Preserve" by Rog Phillips
"By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benét
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
"To the Chicago Abyss" by Ray Bradbury
"Lucifer" by Roger Zelazny
"Eastward Ho!" by William Tenn
"The Feast of Saint Janis" by Michael Swanwick
"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." by Arthur C. Clarke
"A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison
"My Life in the Jungle" by Jim Aikin
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Summary: Best reprint anthology of post-apocalyptic SF
Review: Yes, the book is out of print, but when I ordered it, the page said that it was still available, and I received it in 2 days. Hmmm... There's good and bad to this collection of 21 stories of nuclear devastation. *Bad* - Walter M. Miller's lengthy, rambling, and ultimately pointless foreword and story introductions, and the abundance of typos (did anyone proofread this?). *Good* - The selection of works. Bradbury, Ellison, Clarke, Zelazny, Pangborn, and many others. Plus, it includes one of my personal favorites, "By the Waters of Babylon" by Steven Vincent Benet. The cover is intriguing, as well... looks like Stanislaw Fernandes?
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Summary: This must be a mistake...
Review: Yes, the book is out of print, but when I ordered it, the page said that it was still available, and I received it in 2 days. Hmmm... There's good and bad to this collection of 21 stories of nuclear devastation. *Bad* - Walter M. Miller's lengthy, rambling, and ultimately pointless foreword and story introductions, and the abundance of typos (did anyone proofread this?). *Good* - The selection of works. Bradbury, Ellison, Clarke, Zelazny, Pangborn, and many others. Plus, it includes one of my personal favorites, "By the Waters of Babylon" by Steven Vincent Benet. The cover is intriguing, as well... looks like Stanislaw Fernandes?
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