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crummy read. Socalled genre critlit at its worst, Go with sitelinkThe Dog Stars or sitelinkZone One or sitelinkThe Passage, They're novels but easier reading than what's in this book, There are some real winners in here, The Ash Grey Proclamation will shock even the unshockable, H. G. Wells writes like butter being spread across bread, And I read the Tao Lin story in the book at least a dozen times, In fact, I think I'm going to read it again right now, Excuse me I am sadly disappointed by this collection of work, I was mistakenly expecting science fiction, which this book is NOT, It's more literary reading, something I do not enjoy, This is my own fault perhaps as I believe now that misunderstood the title,

That however is not the extent of my disappointment with the book, While it did have a couple of excellent stories perhapsof those included, some work was far to esoteric for my enjoyment.
Still others, I didn't understand at all,

This was supposed to be a collection of stories that describe 'apocalyptic situations' but, I felt like I was reading a collection bad poetry disguised as short story work.


I can't recommend it, but there are obviously people out there who enjoy this sort of work, Discovered this at the library how could I NOT take a book like this home Interesting mix of writers from H.
P. Lovecraft to Neil Gaiman.

Have not gotten very far but ran across this in the first story I read: "Once we looked at the pavement and found the blocks loose and displaced by grass, with scarce a line of rusted metal to shew where the tramways had run.
And again we saw a tramcar, lone, windowless, dilapidated and almost on its side, When we gazed around the horizon, we could not find the third tower by the river, and noticed the silhouette of the second tower was ragged at the top.
" H. P. Lovecraft

I don't really "get" H, P. Lovecraft but this description raised a thrill on my spine and pretty much nails what I love about Apocalyptic stories.
. . Can't wait to see what the rest brings! Disappointing, I found the content and quality of the chosen stories very inconsistent and, as other reviews have stated, many are only connected to the 'apocalypse' in the vaguest sense of the word.
The most enjoyable selection for me was 'These Zombies Are Not a Metaphor,' which was unfortunately only two pages long.
Of the rest, 'The Hook' stands out as an excellent read, Otherwise, most of the rest were disappointing in the extreme, A month or so ago Cari and I went to see local Author Jemiah Jefferson read from her new Cyberpunk web novel First world.
She did an excellent reading, from talking to Jemiah at events around town I was already sold on the project but her reading was quite good.
You can read the novel for free online, and vote on the direction of the remaining chapters,

There was another author reading that night who has a book out with the same publisher, Brian Evenson, who I had not heard and now I feel bad for having missed him, I saw him before the reading looking at Thomas Liggoti books which is a fanstastic sign,

He read from his book Last Days, and I was sold, A couple days ago i looked him up at the library and I found short story collection which I put on hold and I am waiting for, and an anthology that he has a short story in called The Apocalpse Reader.


I started reading the AR and I have to say this is a must read for fans of dystopias, end of the world fiction or dark fiction in general.
It features HP Lovecraft, Ursala K Leguin,Michael Moorcock, HG Wells and many more,

Evenson's story about a post apoc midwestern cannibal man mistaken for Jesus is a stand out but It is alot of the classics that really make this a must read.
HG Wells's story "The star" written inth century about stray planet coming the earth way is an amazing read.


Most powerful to me was a story written incalled the Earth Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthrone, Gotta read it. Disappointing. I really wanted end of the world stories, of which there were several, However the editor chose to define apocalypese as any revolutionary change, Fair enough, and certainly led to including some very interesting stories, But it's just not what I signed on for, I think you either share his taste in stories or you don't, and I don't, Most of the stories were very abstract and I'd say only a quarter dealt with the apocalypse in a traditional sense, the rest seemed to deal more with cataclysmic change in an individual's life.
Only a few were character based and two of those were very similar stories about some one either comparing his life to or pretending to be the next Jesus.
Both stories were fine but I think they were too similar to include in the same anthology, "THESE ARE THE WAYS THE WORLD ENDSTHIRTYFOUR NEW AND SELECTED DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS"

This is a gorgeous book, from presentation to content.
The selections are humorous, serious, simple, complex, and much morethirtyfour stories, some short, some long, make for a wide spectrum of apocalypses.
Taylor, in the foreword, expounds on his conception of an apocalypse:

"It's worth pointing out that the word Apocalypse comes from the Greek, and literally means "a revelation" or "an unveiling.
" It can be used to describe cataclysmic changes of any sort, Revolution, for example, or social upheaval, There are microApocalypses that mark moments in our lives: childhood's end, a relationship's sudden implosion, Death, "

The selections do span the gamutsome were written so long ago as to be in the public domain, and some were freshly minted in the late's some focus on religious upheavals, some macro, some micro there are personal upheavals, student rantings, surreal recountings of madmen and of course many take the reader through more conventional "end of the world" scenarios.
And even with all that diversity, perhaps guided by the introduction, the theme of the anthology runs strong,

Again, this review is too long for the box, You can read the rest on GUD's site at sitelink gudmagazine. com/review/arc . While editor Justin Taylor provides a variety of stories about a variety of apocalyptic scenarios, this collection feels uneven and suffers from a lack

of focus and from a large variance in the quality of its content, though there are a few stories worth seeking out.
The same idea that prompted me to pick up Andre Norton's sitelinkDarkness and Dawn lead me to read this book, too.
As an anthology, I was thinking that it'd be a great place to find new writers, new ideas, new stories, established greats Poe! Gaimen! Le Guin! Hawthorne! and so much more.
It didn't exactly live up to this potential, Sure, there were authors I'd never heard of published next to classic authors and a whole book full of apocalyptic tales of all varieties, but it landed offmark for me.
There's a class of fantasy that dives way of the deep end of weird, wandering around in nonsensical realms with all the logic of a Dali painting but none of the artistry that's how I felt about most of this book.

I've summarized a few stories sitelinkhere
Too many stories in the collection relied on content rather than writing, and most of the content was unnecessarily sexual.
Though if you took out the sex you'd be left without content, so maybe it was necessary Either way, I didn't enjoy those.
In sum, there are a few gems included in this collection, but I imagine that you could find those either on their own or in a better collection than this.
This eclectic collection of stories defines "apocalypse" very loosely and covers quite a range, from nineteenth century fiction to contemporary, from traditional to the.
. . ah experimental. Some of the stories are classics, some are very good, and some simply make one shake one's head in puzzlement.
A mixed bag as I'd expect from this kind of collection, I thought I would enjoy the modern stuff more, but some of it actually irritated me the most, Unlike some critics I liked the fact that 'apocalypse' was interpreted in many different ways, personal as well as public.
Highlights for me were the Moody, Hohl, Corin, Link and Goss, It's given me a few new authors I'd like to check out, A little toooo esoteric. "An apocalypse of POETRY!" while whimsical, does not a readable story make, However, the short story "Miss Kansas on Judgement Day" is one of the great apocalyptic love stories of all time and for that I give itstars.
There should be a name for the book you put down long, long ago but didn't technically "finish" but can't bring yourself to actually review on Goodreads because it's such an aggravating thing.


Gently, this book was published inand it hasn't aged well, Less kindly: when a book trots out Lovecraft without apology as its first story, you can be sure what overdone white dude perspective this collection is coming from.
Lots of these "apocalypses" include titty descriptions, because that's what's vital at the end of the world! SEXY, LADIES.

Writers I knew Kelly Link, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman disappointed me, and new writers that I liked were few and far betweenthough I did encounter a lot of writers I hope to never read again, so that was helpful in its own way.


Brian Evenson, of course, understood and excelled at the assignment with "An Accounting" and I was happy to run back into Carol Emshwiller.


Not counting this in myofstories a fact that also didn't endear me to this booktoo many of these in good ol MFAese haven't "earned" the designation of story.

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