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• Introduction (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The End of the Whole Mess • (1986) • novelette by Stephen King
• Salvage • [The Mormon Sea] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Bread and Bombs • (2003) • short story by M. Rickert
• How We Got in Town and Out Again • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels • (1973) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• Waiting for the Zephyr • (2002) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Never Despair • (1997) • short story by Jack McDevitt
• When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Last of the O-Forms • (2002) • short story by James Van Pelt
• Still Life with Apocalypse • (2002) • short story by Richard Kadrey
• Artie's Angels • (2001) • short story by Catherine Wells
• Judgment Passed • novelette by Jerry Oltion
• Mute • (2002) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• Inertia • (1990) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• And the Deep Blue Sea • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Speech Sounds • (1983) • short story by Octavia E. Butler
• Killers • (2006) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus • (1988) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The End of the World as We Know It • (2004) • short story by Dale Bailey
• A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • short story by David Grigg
• Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers • (2007) • novelette by John Langan
• For Further Reading (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) • essay by John Joseph Adams