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The Mammoth Book Of Apocalyptic SF (2010)

by Mike Ashley(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1849013055 (ISBN13: 9781849013055)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Robinson Publishing

review 1: Very mixed quality but very glad to have read some of the stories: Robert Silverberg's 'When we went to see the end of the World', Linda Nagat's 'The Flood', Frederick Pohl's 'Fermi and Frost', Alastair Reynold's 'Sleepover', and Kage Baker's 'Books' were good, but especially James Triptree's 'The man who walked home' amazing, deeply moving, descriptions of a struggle to get home, and Fritz Leiber's 'A pail of Air' with it's magically lovely inventions.
review 2: I can never get enough of end of world stories and this collection did not disappoint - I only remember one story that I skipped. I particularly liked the Fritz Lieber sory about an Earth that was now in the same orbit as Pluto becuase it had been captured by another star and the human reaction to this... more catastrophe - the images of frozen landscapes and human struggles were very haunting. As usual the Stephen Baxter story was also excellent. less

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