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Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our manuals through the Wastelands. From the E book of Revelation to The Highway Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Highway, storytellers have long thought the finish of the world, weaving eschatological stories of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing this, these visionary writers have resolved one of the most challenging and enduring topics of imaginative fiction: The type of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic books of the previous 2 decades from a lot of today's most renowned writers of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen Ruler - Wastelands explores the methodical, psychological, and philosophical questions of what this means to remain individuals in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear battle, ecological catastrophe, or cosmological cataclysm, these are stories of survivors, sometimes struggling to rebuild the contemporary society that was, in others, simply surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders. Wastelands delves into this bleak panorama, uncovering the fresh human sentiment and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's primary.
