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10 best books like After the Apocalypse (Maureen F. McHugh): Brave New Worlds, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, Intrusion, The Secret History of Science Fiction, Meet Me in the Moon Room, The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories, The Fate of Mice, Grants Pass, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5

Brave New Worlds
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
ISBN1597802212
From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian...
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN1931520801
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy...
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
AuthorSarah Monette
ISBN1607013053
Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms-dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory-they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of...
Intrusion
AuthorKen MacLeod
ISBN1841499390
I found this book deeply frustrating. Like my favourite kind of science fiction, it poses some really interesting questions about technology, society, and the interaction of the two. However, as a novel, I found it absolutely wretched.

The central premise of the book is that in the near future,...
The Secret History of Science Fiction
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1892391937
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative...
Meet Me in the Moon Room
AuthorRay Vukcevich
ISBN1931520011
* Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships,...
The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN1931520747
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym...
The Fate of Mice
AuthorSusan Palwick
ISBN1892391422
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
Grants Pass
AuthorJennifer Brozek
ISBN9197760560
The apocalypse has arrived.

Humanity was decimated by bio-terrorism; three engineered plagues were let loose on the world. Barely anyone has survived.

Just a year before the collapse, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, was publicly labeled as a place of sanctuary in a whimsical online,...
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801720
In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and...
The Best of Kage Baker
AuthorKage Baker
ISBN1596064420
Kage Baker’s death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she wrote prolifically and well, leaving an astonishing...
A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0446677426
These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.

Contents:
Inertia / Nancy Kress
Even the Queen / Connie Willis
Fool's Errand / Sarah Zettel
Rachel...
Lost Everything
AuthorBrian Francis Slattery
ISBN0765329123
In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly...
Blueprints of the Afterlife
AuthorRyan Boudinot
From the “wickedly talented” (Boston Globe) and “darkly funny” (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.

It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age of F***ed Up Shit.” A sentient glacier...
What I Didn't See and Other Stories
AuthorKaren Joy Fowler
ISBN1931520682
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The...
Fountain of Age
AuthorNancy Kress
ISBN1931520453

Nine new stories from a long-time star of the science fiction field including the Hugo Award winner "The Erdmann Nexus" and Nebula Award winner "The Fountain of Age." These stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Best of the...
Unpossible and Other Stories
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1933846305
The short stories in this first collection by Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fanatics spreading...
The Apocalypse Reader
AuthorJustin Taylor
ISBN1560259590
These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these...
Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead
AuthorWalter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN0803283156
In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war....
Errantry: Strange Stories
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN1618730304
No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable...
Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World
AuthorJames Frenkel
ISBN0737302712
For as long as anyone can remember, we have speculated—with curiosity and dread—about the prospect of the world coming to an end. In this lively, reflective, and entertaining anthology, renowned science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Sheckley,...
Some Will Not Die
AuthorAlgis Budrys
ISBN1587760290
If you don't normally like post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will surprise you. If you love post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will be a refreshing change to most other similar novels.

The premise is simple and has been used many times since: a mysterious plague wipes...
Red Spikes
AuthorMargo Lanagan
ISBN0375843205
Margo Lanagan's electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leaves on us all.

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