The End of the World [Greenberg] (2010)

The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse
Edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Read by Suehyla El Attar & Nicholas Tecosky
Encode: mp3 - 64k, Stereo, 24 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 27
Total Play time: 12:08:34



From Publishers Weekly
Famous stories of the apocalypse by the world’s best science fiction writers.
Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to with a bang. The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, and more. Relive these childhood classics or discover them here for the first time. Each story details the eerie political, social, and environmental destruction of our world.

Stories in this collection:

01) Dancing Through the Apocalypse by Robert Silverberg
Bang or Wimper
02) The Hum by Rick Hautala
03) Salvador by Lucius Shepard
04) We Can Get Them for You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman
05) The Big Flash by Norman Spinrad
The Last Man
06) Kindness by Lester del Rey
07) The Underdweller by William F. Nolan
08) Lucifer by Roger Zelazny
Life After the End
09) To the Storming Gulf by Gregory Benford
10) The Feast of Saint Janis by Michael Swanwick
11) The Wheel by John Wyndham
12) Jody After the War by Edward Bryant
13) Salvage by Orson Scott Card
14) By Fools Like Me by Nancy Kress
Dark Distant Futures
15) The Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley
16) Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin
17) If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth... by Arthur C. Clarke
18) Afterward by John Helfers
Witnesses to the End of the World
19) When We Went to See the End of the World by Robert Silverberg
20) Flight to Forever by Poul Anderson