Introduction by John Joseph Adams
The End of the Whole Mess
by Stephen King
Salvage
by Orson Scott Card
The People of Sand and Slag
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Bread and Bombs
by M. Rickert
How We Got in Town and Out Again
by Jonathan Lethem
Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels
by George R. R. Martin
Waiting for the Zephyr
by Tobias S. Buckell
Never Despair
by Jack McDevitt
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
by Cory Doctorow
The Last of the O-Forms
by James Van Pelt
Still Life with Apocalypse
by Richard Kadrey
Artie’s Angels
by Catherine Wells
Judgment Passed
by Jerry Oltion
Mute
by Gene Wolfe
Inertia
by Nancy Kress
And the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth Bear
Speech Sounds
by Octavia E. Butler
Killers
by Carol Emshwiller
Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus
by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The End of the World as We Know It
by Dale Bailey
Song Before Sunset
by David Grigga
Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack
in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers
by John Langan
Appendix: For Further Reading
