Armageddons

As the new millennium approaches, speculations about Earth's destruction abound. This collection presents twelve world-ending scenarios that are all too frightening — and all too real — from some of the greatest minds in science fiction...

Contents

1 • Fermi and Frost • (1985) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl

19 • A Desperate Calculus • (1995) • novelette by Gregory Benford [as by Sterling Blake ]

51 • Evolution • (1995) • novelette by Nancy Kress

75 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper

101 • ". . .The World As We Know't." • (1982) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop

121 • The Peacemaker • (1983) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois

139 • The Screwfly Solution • (1977) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]

163 • A Pail of Air • (1951) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber

179 • The Great Nebraska Sea • (1963) • shortstory by Allan Danzig

191 • Inconstant Moon • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven

219 • The Last Sunset • (1996) • shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis

223 • Down in the Dark • (1998) • novelette by William Barton

• Author
• Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, Allan Danzig, Larry Niven, Geoffrey A. Landis, William Barton, Frederik Pohl, Sterling Blake, Nancy Kress, Richard Cowper, Howard Waldrop, Raccoona Sheldon, Fritz Leiber

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 269

• Publisher
• Ace

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780441006755

• Genres
• anthologies, fiction

• Release date
• 1999