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• 9 • Introduction (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) • (2008) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 13 • The End of the Whole Mess • (1986) • novelette by Stephen King
• 47 • Salvage • [The Mormon Sea] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 75 • The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 105 • Bread and Bombs • (2008) • short story by M. Rickert [as by Mary Rickert]
• 125 • How We Got in Town and Out Again • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 159 • Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels • (1973) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 185 • Waiting for the Zephyr • (2002) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 195 • Never Despair • (1997) • short story by Jack McDevitt
• 211 • When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• 265 • The Last of the O-Forms • (2002) • short story by James Van Pelt
• 289 • Still Life with Apocalypse • (2002) • short story by Richard Kadrey
• 295 • Artie's Angels • (2001) • short story by Catherine Wells
• 317 • Judgment Passed • (2008) • novelette by Jerry Oltion
• 353 • Mute • (2002) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 369 • Inertia • (1990) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 411 • And the Deep Blue Sea • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 439 • Speech Sounds • (1983) • short story by Octavia E. Butler
• 469 • Killers • (2006) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 479 • Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus • (1988) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 507 • The End of the World As We Know It • (2004) • short story by Dale Bailey
• 533 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • short story by David Grigg
• 551 • Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers • (2007) • novelette by John Langan