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Good followup to The End is Nigh. I most enjoyed the ones that were continuations of stories from book 1, even when they featured characters only spoken about in the first or completely new characters caught up in the same apocalyptic experience as those from the first. I was most connected to the story that kept with the same character from the first story (Herd Immunity by Tananarive Due, which may be my favorite). Recommended and I went right to the final in the series after this.The Sixth Da...
The End is Now is the second collection of stories in the Apocalypse Triptych, and as each author further develops his or her world with each anthology, it really should be read after you have completed The End is Nigh.Each story in the collection either takes place where the first one left off or introduces us to new characters in the author's world but they were all written so that the reader could easily recall the original storyline.I enjoyed the collection but Ben H. Winters, Hugh Howey and...
A damn good follow-up. Great continuations of the stories in volume one. A lot of them I actually preferred to the first story, and enjoyed seeing where the fucked-up situations led, especially interesting when the characters changed due to the former protagonist dying or whatnot. In this volume everyone is obviously right in the thick of it with few if any options remaining, which makes for more intensity overall. I was going to list out my favorites in detail but for now I'll just mention a fe...
Part 1 was better!I would only give the following stories the 5-star treatment:HERD IMMUNITY by Tananarive DueTHE SIXTH DAY OF DEER CAMP by Scott Sigler GOODNIGHT STARS by Annie BelletAGENT ISOLATED by David Wellington THE GODS WILL NOT BE SLAIN by Ken Liu SUNSET HOLLOW by Jonathan Maberry PENANCE by Jake Kerr DANCING WITH BATGIRL IN THE LAND OF NOD by Will McIntoshIN THE MOUNTAIN by Hugh HoweyBecause of the above, I will of course buy The End Has Come on the day it is available!The others, well...
The second part in the series. I think this one had more misses than the last, but about the same amount of hits.Hugh Howey ruled this - an excellent story and I am really looking forward to the third part. Desirina Boskovich still has a good story, even it wasn't as good as the first part. Annie Bellet and Jake Kerr round off the hit return authours, while Elizabeth Bear rocked the new comers.Sarah Langan failed for the second time, and Jonathan Maberry lost it big time mainly due to the narrat...
"The End is Now" is the second book in the Apocalypse Triptych. I'd immensely enjoyed #1, "The End is Nigh" (review here), and I've been a huge fan of the connected short stories idea.Some of my favorites in this collection (in the order of their appearance in the book) are:Tananarive Due's "Herd Immunity" (prequel: "Removal Order" in #1): Though I enjoyed "Removal Order", I wouldn't have gushed with praise about it. But, "Herd Immunity" is another story entirely (ha!). The protagonist, Nayima,
A great collection of apocalyptic shorts. For whatever reason, I started with the second book rather than the first. However, I found that didn't hinder my enjoying the stories. In fact, I'm kind of excited to go backwards and read the first book for a bit of clarification and exploration into the unique worlds created by the authors. A must read for fans of short fiction!
Well, I have to admit that I didn't like this one as much as its predecessor, The End is Nigh. Some of the writers I liked couldn't make it to this one, and were replaced with writers I'm not as fond of, and some of the followups weren't as good as the first story. The authors new to this one were Daniel H. Wilson (shakes fist, damn robot nut) and Elizabeth Bear, who puts a fun human twist in her virus story. As I mentioned in my review of the first book, Tananarive Due's "Herd Immunity" was rea...
