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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (short story collection)
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. This is probably my favorite collection of short stories about the apocalypse without zombies. I couldn't put the book down.
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I'd also like to recommend The Stand by Stephen King
For that particular class, I believe the assigned reading was:
>* Wastelands - John Joseph Adams
I also took a class on dystopian literature, which included:
>* The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Others I could recommend:
>* Lost Horizon - James Hilton
I think he's talking about When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow. The places where it was available online seem to 404 now, but you might be able to find a PDF of it somewhere. If you prefer the dead tree edition, it's in this collection (which is where I first heard of it).
EDIT: Ah, someone else did find it online.
Yup, I recently read it in Wastelands, if OP wants a print version of it.
This short story collection has been on my to-investigate list for a while, and one of the reviews mentions a) realistic collapse scenarios and b) peak oil. Plus: Stephen King!
Really uninspired by any of those releases... I would try to get excited about Other Worlds Than These but John Joseph Adams' Wastelands anthology was very underwhelming. Considering the depth and breadth available for that collection alone, the editor performed very poorly. He seems to produce anthologies for popular (read: pop) sub-genres than for real, gutsy salt-of-the-earth sub-genre stuff.
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
I like short stories. This is a nice collection of after the apocalypse stories. I think some people here would enjoy it. This is one of my permanent shelf books. I have read and reread this one quite a few times. Hope someone here gets something out of it and that it fits in.
Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt is an excellent many-years-after-the-apocalypse type story.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson isn't exactly apocalyptic, but it does deal with end-of-the-world themes and explores how society might react.
Wastelands is an excellent collection of apocalyptic short stories.
Wastelands: Short stories of the apocolypse Just what it sounds like. Short stories in post apoc setting.
A number of years ago I read Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. This reminds me of one of my favorite short stories from the book. From a review: "A group of system administrators bleakly watching the collapse of the Internet and civilization and trying to survive in the dark aftermath."
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is a collection of 22 short stories written by famous and popular authors, all centered around the theme of the apocalypse. A few were boring to me, but the majority are incredibly well written, captivating, and a few moved me to tears. I highly suggest this one and feel confident in saying you wont regret picking it up.
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I'm reposting something I posted a couple of years ago:
Well, perhaps the most famous recent post-apocalyptic novel was McCarthy's The Road. Quite a bleak book, and very characteristic of McCarthy's spartan prose, this became a huge international best seller and a successful Hollywood movie. I certainly recommend it, but it's not really an uplifting book and has several confronting scenes. Still, very good.
The other obvious recent "literary" PA novels would be Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" trilogy. They start with Oryx and Crake, are followed by Year of the Flood and conclude with MaddAddam. These are very good books with strong feminist and ecological themes (a good thing!). Highly recommended.
The Dog Stars is yet another recent PA novel which garnered a fair bit of praise (I picked it up after hearing a segment on the novel on NPR's Fresh Air). I enjoyed it, despite the cliched "Survivalist" aspects and occasional far-fetched coincidences. A good, fun read; especially if you're a dog lover. :)
Other recommended titles (which I won't link to directly for time reasons) include Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy (kind of a mash up between post apocalypse and horror), Stephen King's The Stand (ditto), A Canticle for Leibowitz, Earth Abides and Alas Babylon (the triptych of classics of the genre).
Good luck. I love these books even though I'm a positive optimistic guy! :)
EDIT: I overlooked Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven (fun, action packed but accused by some of racist undertones), The Postman by David Brin (so so so very much better than the movie it spawned. So much better), The Year of the Plague by someone I forgot (rather original PA novel with nano-technology rearing its head) and even Blood Music by Greg Bear (though most people consider this full on science fiction, it does feature an apocalypse... or a sort. :)
 
 
 
Since then, I've thought of (or read) a few more. Perhaps one of the most famous is Station Eleven. It garnered a fair bit of media attention and mainstream critical acclaim a couple of years ago. It's a bit of a slow burner, and whilst it's not my favourite post-apocalyptic novel, it's certainly worth picking up. The Girl with All the Gifts was a recent hit. Set in the UK, it tells the story of a band of British scientists and soldiers searching for remaining survivors, as they bring along a very strange and very dangerous survivor of the recent plague. It's great fun and was made into a movie recently. I believe the author recently published a sequel (The Boy on the Bridge?), but I haven't read this.
Wastelands is a collection of short-stories. Some really good stuff here, and if you're not feeling up to a full length novel or comptemplating the end of humanity, it's well worth a look.
Let me know if you want more. It's a favourite genre of mine. :)
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I really enjoyed it.
Wastelands edited by John Joseph Adams. A collection of post apocalyptic short stories, many of which are really good.
Get in Trouble and maybe After the Apocalypse or Wastelands
Read this story recently in the short story collection Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. It's a great anthology, and while I like Doctorow's entry, it's one of the weaker stories in this collection. Some real good stuff here.
Some collections I read recently:
Wasteland
Brave New Worlds
Robot Uprisings
I also read a few other stories that really stood out. Second Variety by P.K. Dick, The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It isn't quite a short story, but The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson was also great and could be read as a collection of stories connected to each other.
these were good
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