This is a strange collection of odds and ends of “apocalyptic” writing or stories of the apocalypse. The writers here include Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Bear, Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, and various others (many of whom I don’t know very well). Oh, and I forgot Cory Doctorow. So the collection, like any collection is hit and miss. I think the most common kinds of misses, for me, are the ones in which everything is bad and terrible […]