Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead

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In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget. Miller’s incisive introduction and a thought-provoking and irreverent commentary are included. All stories are preceded by intros, written by Miller, which comment on the story to come, and sometimes also the story preceeding the note.

Contents:

Introduction: Forewarning • essay by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Salvador / short story by Lucius Shepard
The Store of the Worlds / short story by Robert Sheckley
The Big Flash / novelette by Norman Spinrad
Lot [David Jimmon] / novelette by Ward Moore
Day at the Beach / short story by Carol Emshwiller
The Wheel / short story by John Wyndham
Jody After the War / short story by Edward Bryant
The Terminal Beach / novelette by J. G. Ballard
Tomorrow's Children [Tomorrow's Children • 1] / novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop
Heirs Apparent / novelette by Robert Abernathy
A Master of Babylon / novelette by Edgar Pangborn
Game Preserve / short story by Rog Phillips
By the Waters of Babylon / short fiction by Stephen Vincent Benét [as by Stephen V. Benet]
There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] / short story by Ray Bradbury
To the Chicago Abyss / short story by Ray Bradbury
Lucifer / short story by Roger Zelazny
Eastward Ho! / short story by William Tenn
The Feast of Saint Janis / novelette by Michael Swanwick
"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ..." / short story by Arthur C. Clarke
A Boy and His Dog [Vic and Blood • 2] / novella by Harlan Ellison
My Life in the Jungle / short story by Jim Aikin

Also published as "Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar"