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End as a World
F. L. Wallace
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By F. L. WALLACE
Illustrated by DIEHL
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Science Fiction September 1955.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Prophets aplenty foretold the end—but not one
ever guessed just how it would come about!
Every paper said so in all the languages there were, I guess. I kept reading them, but didn't know what to believe. I know what I wanted to think, but that's different from actually knowing.
There was the usual news just after Labor Day. The Dodgers were winning or losing, I forget which, and UCLA was strong and was going to beat everybody they met that fall. An H-bomb had been tested in the Pacific, blowing another island off the map, just as if we had islands to spare. Ordinarily this was important, but now it wasn't. They put stuff l. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
So many of these stories were haunting and sad. I had to close the book and think about something else after most of them. I even teared up at a few of the stories.
Another well above average collection of short stories from the people who bring you the Mad Scientists' Journal, this one about what happens after the world ends. As the title evocatively suggests. It's not all Mad Max in there--the world ends in a lot of creative ways. There's a light at the end o
Very nice collection of short stories. The Stories that were good were really good, though a few were less successful at keeping my interest.
It has both serious and comic short stories with all sorts of end of the world images, something for everyone.
As it is a book of short stories I can recommend
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The title alone made me add this to my "To Read" list a good while ago. After finally ordering it and letting it sit on a shelf for a while I finally picked it up. I don't remember the last time I poured through a collection of short stories so quickly. Each story is about the end of the world in on
Full disclosure here: one of the authors in this book used to be my roommate and remains one of my best friends.
This book has a couple of great stories, a lot of pretty good stories, and a couple of duds. But you don't have to take my word for it...more
I'm such a big fan of this collection, which takes a simple premise -- there are a lot of different ways the world could end, and a lot of different people who could tell those stories -- and pulls together a set of stories that shows how diverse, how complicated, and how lovely it can be.
While the