The Apocalypse Reader
by H.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin and Neil Gaiman and Rick Moody and Joyce Carol Oates and Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock and Dennis Cooper and David Elliott and Josip Novakovich and Theodora Goss and Kelly Link and Justin Taylor and Steve Aylett and Grace Aguilar and Robert Bradley and Lucy Corin and Matthew Derby and Carol Emshwiller and Brian Evenson and Jeff Goldberg and Shelley Jackson and Stacey Levine and Gary Lutz and Colette Phair and Terese Svoboda and Lynne Tillman and Deb Olin Unferth and Allison Whittenberg and Diane Williams and Adam Nemett and Jared Hohl
These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.
Release Date:
May 21, 2007
