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Wastelands
- The New Apocalypse
- Narrated by: Michael Braun, Christopher Carley, Laura Knight Keating, Channie Waites
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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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?
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- dee
- 09-11-23
A bizarre collection
A couple of these stories are good, a few others are well-written but have ridiculous concepts.
However, most of them are pretty poor and the last two are appalling- and the language in the penultimate story is foul.
The female narrators are very weak. The male narrators are somewhat better.
Not sure why I bothered listening- I think I thought it might improve, but instead the stories got worse towards the end.
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-04-20
50 / 50
some good some not so good. and the odd just downright poop.
ok to walk the beach on lockdown but was expecting a little more.
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- KittyKat
- 18-04-23
Rubbish
Some of the worst short stories I've heard. Dull , boring and totally unimaginative. Also very PC and pushing the whole WOKE agenda. I should have known it would be bad once I heard the intro...... Californian harping on about climate change doom and gloom .
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- Giedrius
- 29-04-21
Really enjoyable
I am big sci-fi fan and found most of the stories taking my full attention. Narrators also did very good job adding more life to the stories.
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- JR2003
- 11-03-22
SciFi Fan
I tend to like the post apocalyptic genre, even if the Zombie trope is a little overplayed in recent times. I also like anthologies of short stories so I thought this was a no brainer. I was wrong! The narration was...OK...but not engaging. The stories were, in a word, dreadful. Most of them didn't peak my interest in the slightest. They were full of so many cliches that I felt like I knew what was going to happen more than 50% of the time; also I feared a terminal case of eye roll. Of the first 5 stories, I think I skipped 3 after 10 minutes of listening, hoping that the next one was better. There was a delightfully bizzare tale of humanity at the end of time that I actually did find really interesting and made me commit to continuing. After starting the 5th or 6th Story (I can't remember), I gave up, which is something I rarely do. In my 4+ years as an audible member, this is only the second book that I have ever returned.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-08-23
Easily one of the best
this is far better than reviews say the stories in this are a vast majority well thought out I would be safe to say this is one of the best Anthologies I have ever read this does not deserve the low rating it has being around 30 hours long it provides a wealth of content some of it is deep some is not I would rate all the stories in here apart from 2 or 3 (and remember there are about 30 ) 5 stars I would wholly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the apocolypse and the more ' woke ' aspects of it meber realy get in the way of the stories THIS IS A MUST READ
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