The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF

There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself. Contents: When we went to see the end of the world - Robert Silverberg The End of the World - Sushma Joshi The Clockwork Atom Bomb - Dominic Green Bloodletting - Kate Wilhelm When Sysadmins ruled the World - Cory Doctorow The Rain at the End of the World - Dale Bailey The Flood - Linda Nagata The End of the World Show - David Barnett Fermi and Frost - Frederik Pohl Sleepover - Alastair Reynolds The Last Sunset - Geoffrey Landis Moments of Inertia - William Barton The Books - Kage Baker Pallbearer - Robert Reed And the Deep Blue Sea - Elizabeth Bear The Meek - Damien Broderick The Man who Walked Home - James Tiptree JR A Pail of Air - Fritz Leiber Guardians of the Phoenix - Eric Brown Life in the Anthropocene - Paul di Filippo Terraforming Terra - Jack Williamson World Without End - F Gwynplaine MacIntyre The Children of Time - Stephen Baxter The Star called Wormwood - Elizabeth Counihan