Wastelands -- The New Apocalypse
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The new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, featuring never-before-published stories and curated reprints by some of the genre's most popular and critically-acclaimed authors. In WASTELANDS: THE NEW APOCALYPSE, veteran anthology editor John Joseph Adams is once again our guide through the wastelands using his genre and editorial expertise to curate his finest collection of post-apocalyptic short fiction yet. Whether the end comes via nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, or cosmological disaster, these stories explore the extraordinary trials and tribulations of those who survive. Featuring never-before-published tales by: Veronica Roth, Hugh Howey, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Richard Kadrey, Scott Sigler, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Meg Elison, Greg van Eekhout, Wendy N. Wagner, Jeremiah Tolbert, and Violet Allen--plus, recent reprints by: Carmen Maria Machado, Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kami Garcia, Charlie Jane Anders, Catherynne M. Valente, Jack Skillingstead, Sofia Samatar, Maureen F. McHugh, Nisi Shawl, Adam-Troy Castro, Dale Bailey, Susan Jane Bigelow, Corinne Duyvis, Shaenon K. Garrity, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Darcie Little Badger, Timothy Mudie, and Emma Osborne. Continuing in the tradition of WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, these 34 stories ask: What would life be like after the end of the world as we know it?
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Seek the Traitor's Son
Same Veronica Roth voice and war-torn brutality, but stretched into one epic fantasy arc with a slow-burn forbidden romance at its center.
Slow Dance
Also about people salvaging a life after things fall apart, but the wreckage is a marriage rather than the world—warm, hopeful, no violence.
Landline
Keeps the speculative hook you enjoyed—a phone that reaches the past—but swaps collapse and grief for cozy domestic second chances.
Bare necessity
Another story of starting over with nothing after disaster, though the catastrophe is personal and the tone comic rather than bleak.
Happiness for beginners
Shares the found-family-through-hardship thread of the anthology's survivors, but set on a care farm with gentle humor instead of ruin.
O Presente do Meu Grande Amor
Another multi-author short story collection with a single unifying premise, but the mood is cozy holiday romance rather than bleak survival.