Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 3 • The End of the Whole Mess • (1986) • novelette by Stephen King
• 23 • Salvage • [The Mormon Sea] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 39 • The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 55 • Bread and Bombs • (2003) • short story by M. Rickert
• 67 • How We Got in Town and Out Again • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 87 • Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels • (1973) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 101 • Waiting for the Zephyr • (2002) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 107 • Never Despair • (1997) • short story by Jack McDevitt
• 117 • When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• 149 • The Last of the O-Forms • (2002) • short story by James Van Pelt
• 161 • Still Life with Apocalypse • (2002) • short story by Richard Kadrey
• 165 • Artie's Angels • (2001) • short story by Catherine Wells
• 177 • Judgment Passed • novelette by Jerry Oltion
• 197 • Mute • (2002) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 207 • Inertia • (1990) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 229 • And the Deep Blue Sea • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 245 • Speech Sounds • (1983) • short story by Octavia E. Butler
• 257 • Killers • (2006) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 267 • Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus • (1988) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 283 • The End of the World As We Know It • (2004) • short story by Dale Bailey
• 297 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • short story by David Grigg
• 307 • Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers • (2007) • novelette by John Langan
• 329 • For Further Reading (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by John Joseph Adams