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The End of the World

Stories of the Apocalypse

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The End of the World

By: Martin H. Greenberg - editor
Narrated by: Suehyla El Attar, Nicholas Tecosky
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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.

©2010 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Adventure Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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What will humanity’s demise look like?

To answer that question, veteran anthologizer Martin Greenberg selects unsettling stories from masters of apocalyptic fiction. The team of Suehyla El Attar and Nicholas Tecosky play off each other in performance of individuals and groups who face the end, or have to live in a time and world where all we now experience is long gone. Here is the world’s political, social, and environmental destruction as envisioned by geniuses of speculation, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, and Lester del Rey.
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I did enjoy this, and there were some memorable stories, but this was a bit too hit or miss for me. The narrator could have been better, and either different people for different stories or a musical interlude in-between stories, would have helped to differentiate between short stories. The narrator also had very audible breathing at times which was so distracting I almost stopped listening.

Rather hit or miss.

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Interesting mix of stories, some quite hard to follow, but a few good ones here for sure.

Mixed bag

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Odd selection of storys from across decades of SiFi history. Some bizarre, some good. I wouldn't say its a total page turning book but it's interesting. You can almost put the story's into the decades they were written just by the words used! Worth a listen, certainly not the best.

Bizarre! But Good.

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It may be the narration was a bit flat( I found it fine ) ,the stories were great simply amazing

Amazing collection of apocolyptic stories

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Some good stories. Some sad stories. The last story however is very reminiscent of H.G.Wells. No spoilers but the last story which was worth the book alone, is probably the best. Really enjoyable listen.

Great set of stories.

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