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Über-editor John Joseph Adams has created a website for his upcoming post-apocalyptic science fiction anthology, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.

Besides profiling the authors who contributed to the anthology, the website also includes story excerpts. And check out this lineup:

1. "The End of the Whole Mess" by Stephen King
2. "Salvage" by Orson Scott Card
3. "The People of Sand and Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi
4. "Bread and Bombs" by M. Rickert
5. "How We Got In Town and Out Again" by Jonathan Lethem
6. "Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels" by George R. R. Martin
7. "Waiting for the Zephyr" by Tobias S. Buckell
8. "Never Despair" by Jack McDevitt
9. "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow
10. "The Last of the O-Forms" by James Van Pelt
11. "Still Life With Apocalypse" by Richard Kadrey
12. "Artie's Angels" by Catherine Wells
13. "Judgment Passed" by Jerry Oltion
14. "Mute" by Gene Wolfe
15. "Inertia" by Nancy Kress
16. "And the Deep Blue Sea" by Elizabeth Bear
17. "Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler
18. "Killers" by Carol Emshwiller
19. "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" by Neal Barrett, Jr.
20. "The End of the World as We Know It" by Dale Bailey
21. "A Song Before Sunset" by David Grigg
22. "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" by John Langan

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday August 29, 2007 - 12:15 AM | Category: Books, Web Sites | © 2007 SF Signal

I am so looking forward for this.

Posted by General X on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 3:04 AM

"The People of Sand and Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi

I read this already in one of the "years best" anthologies. Pretty good story. The lack of an explanation of where the dog came from and how it survived still haunts me. And the ended, even though it technically was a picnic, was no picnic either. If it didn't get a nomination for a hugo or nebula it should have.

Posted by joshua corning on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 8:36 PM

By the way my praise of Paolo Bacigalupi's short story should in no way be construed as an endorsement of the political assumptions taken by the author in crafting the story. The Environmental Kuznet's Curve disproved his assumptions at least a decade ago.

My fondness is strictly an aesthetic appreciation.

Posted by joshua corning on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 10:26 PM

Joshua, I read the story a couple of years ago and loved it, too. It was eventually nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Posted by John on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 10:41 PM