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Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead

In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923 — 96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget. Miller’s incisive introduction and a thought-provoking and irreverent commentary are included. All stories are preceded by intros, written by Miller, which comment on the story to come, and sometimes also the story preceeding the note.

Contents:

Introduction: Forewarning (Beyond Armageddon) (1985) • essay by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Salvador (1984) / short story by Lucius Shepard

The Store of the Worlds (1959) / short story by Robert Sheckley

The Big Flash (1969) / novelette by Norman Spinrad

Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) / novelette by Ward Moore

Day at the Beach (1959) / short story by Carol Emshwiller

The Wheel (1952) / short story by John Wyndham

Jody After the War (1972) / short story by Edward Bryant

The Terminal Beach (1964) / novelette by J. G. Ballard

Tomorrow's Children [Tomorrow's Children • 1] (1947) / novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop

Heirs Apparent (1954) / novelette by Robert Abernathy

A Master of Babylon (1966) / novelette by Edgar Pangborn (variant of The Music Master of Babylon 1954)

Game Preserve (1957) / short story by Rog Phillips

By the Waters of Babylon (1937) / short fiction by Stephen Vincent Benét (variant of The Place of the Gods) [as by Stephen V. Benet]

There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury

To the Chicago Abyss (1963) / short story by Ray Bradbury

Lucifer (1964) / short story by Roger Zelazny

Eastward Ho! (1958) / short story by William Tenn

The Feast of Saint Janis (1980) / novelette by Michael Swanwick

"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ..." (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke

A Boy and His Dog [Vic and Blood • 2] (1969) / novella by Harlan Ellison

My Life in the Jungle (1985) / short story by Jim Aikin

Also published as "Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar"

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 387
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780803283152
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies, apocalyptic, dystopia, fantasy
  • Release date
  • 2006