Морин Макхью - Wastelands - The New Apocalypse

“A Series of Images from a Ruined City at the End of the World” by Violet Allen. © 2019 by Violet Allen. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“As Good as New” by Charlie Jane Anders. © 2014 by Charlie Jane Anders. Originally published in Tor.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Shooting the Apocalypse” by Paolo Bacigalupi. © 2014 by Paolo Bacigalupi. Originally published in The End is Nigh. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Black, Their Regalia” by Darcie Little Badger. © 2016 by Darcie Little Badger. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Snow” by Dale Bailey. © 2015 by Dale Bailey. Originally published in Nightmare Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bullet Point” by Elizabeth Bear. © 2019 by Elizabeth Bear. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Eyes of the Flood” by Susan Jane Bigelow. © 2018 by Susan Jane Bigelow. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Through Sparks in Morning’s Dawn” by Tobias S. Buckell. © 2019 by Tobias S. Buckell. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Last to Matter” by Adam-Troy Castro. © 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“One Day Only” by Tananarive Due. © 2019 by Tananarive Due. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“And the Rest of Us Wait” by Corinne Duyvis. © 2016 by Corinne Duyvis. Originally published in Defying Doomsday. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Come on Down” by Meg Elison. © 2019 by Meg Elison. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“Burn 3” by Kami Garcia. © 2013 by Kami Garcia. Originally published in Shards & Ashes. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Francisca Montoya’s Almanac of Things That Can Kill You” by Shaenon K. Garrity. © 2014 by Shaenon K. Garrity. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bones of Gossamer” by Hugh Howey. © 2019 by Hugh Howey. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Air is Chalk” by Richard Kadrey. © 2019 by Richard Kadrey. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“Last Chance” by Nicole Kornher-Stace. © 2017 by Nicole Kornher-Stace. Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Plague” by Ken Liu. © 2013 by Ken Liu. Originally published in Nature Futures. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Hungry Earth” by Carmen Maria Machado. © 2013 by Carmen Maria Machado. Originally published in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Not this War, Not this World” by Jonathan Maberry. © 2019 by Jonathan Maberry. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“So Sharp, So Bright, So Final” by Seanan McGuire. © 2019 by Seanan McGuire. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“Cannibal Acts” by Maureen F. McHugh. © 2017 by Maureen F. McHugh. Originally published in Boston Review: Global Dystopias. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Elephants’ Crematorium” by Timothy Mudie. © 2018 by Timothy Mudie. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Don’t Pack Hope” by Emma Osborne. © 2018 by Emma Osborne. Originally published in Nightmare Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Echo” by Veronica Roth. © 2019 by Veronica Roth. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Red Thread” by Sofia Samatar. © 2016 by Sofia Samatar. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Otherwise” by Nisi Shawl. © 2012 by Nisi Shawl. Originally published in Brave New Love. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Last Child” by Scott Sigler. © 2019 by Scott Sigler. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Last Garden” by Jack Skillingstead. © 2017 by Jack Skillingstead. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Four Kittens” by Jeremiah Tolbert. © 2019 by Jeremiah Tolbert. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente. © 2016 by Cat Valente. Originally published in Drowned Worlds. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Polly Wanna Cracker?” by Greg van Eekhout. © 2019 by Greg van Eekhout. Appears for the first time in this volume.

“Where Would You Be Now” by Carrie Vaughn. © 2018 by Carrie Vaughn. Originally published in Tor.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Expedition 83” by Wendy N. Wagner. © 2019 by Wendy N. Wagner. Appears for the first time in this volume.

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* After John Varley, from “The Manhattan Phone Book, Abridged”.

† After Fallout , but with the small “v” to stay grammatically correct in this particular context.

‡ After Walter M. Miller, Jr., in A Canticle for Leibowitz .