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Wastelands

By: John Joseph Adams - editor
Narrated by: Michael Braun, Christopher Carley, Laura Knight Keating, Channie Waites
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Publisher's summary

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?

©2019 John Joseph Adams (P)2019 Recorded Books
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Her reviews are worth the trouble!

I’m thrilled that more people are familiar with Ms Tamales. She has an exciting style. Ms Kyle is able to make Eric’s narratives come to life.

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Enjoyable and Diverse Stories

I've read/ listened to all the books in the anthology and can appreciate this one because it's original stories, and a diverse collection of stories from a diverse section of American sci-fi authors. There were a few stories that lost my interest unlike the other two volumes but instead of skipping them I opted to listening to them. Overall the book was enjoyable and I loved the fact that I was putting my mind to work by imagining the stories playing out in my head.

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l liked it

I enjoyed this audiobook, all kinds of wasteland stories. Sadly, some read politics into everything but don't let it put you off. Some good stories here.

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Great Narrators!

I love post-apocalyptic stories, but reading about pandemics in 2021? 😦 Still love this collection!

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Not what J expected

it wasn't as doom and gloom as I expected, looking forward to followup stories on a few. A few were actually very funny given the content.

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Meh

Most of the stories were extremely repetitive in terms of plot. A few stood out, but it was hard to get through this book overall because of the repetition.

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This is just awful

Possibly the worst apocalypse story I’ve ever tried to listen to? I did try hard to skipping from fictional short story to unrealistic short story to morbid short story before I just gave up and returned the book.

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Don't bother....

Unlike the previous two volumes, there's no energy to most of the stories. Monolithic, grey, oppressive, even predictable. Came here for a Johnathan Maberry story and really couldn't sit through the rest.

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Collection of unfinished novellas

Most of the stories were unfinished and left the reader hanging. Any story that engaged the reader failed to have an ending.

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Garbage collection.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy has no limits. Ok. But what’s with the excessive amount that of lesbians? Also, how are all these mostly fantasy without any that have realistic scenarios? Best thing about this collection were the performances except even with those, maybe not have two or more stories back-to-back read by the same person, different stories of course but they it does get confusing. Unless you made the mistakes as I did and got the whole WASTELANDS series, I’d recommend moving along to better fiction anywhere else.

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