Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead

5 best books like Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead (Walter M. Miller Jr.): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, The Rediscovery of Man, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Complete Short Stories

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Author	James Tiptree Jr.
ISBN	1892391201

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing...

The Rediscovery of Man

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	1857988191

This is the 1999 British edition from Gollancz that includes 12 of the most famous short stories from Cordwainer Smith's "Instrumentality of Mankind" universe. His complete stories are collected in the 1993 NESFA edition called "The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer...

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Author	M.R. James
ISBN	1557425574

The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close."

"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle...

The Complete Short Stories

Author	J.G. Ballard
ISBN	0007138121

For four decades, J.G. Ballard has been one of Britain's most celebrated novelists. From the beginning he has been equally admired for his distinctive and highly influential short stories, the first of which - "Prima Belladonna" and "Escapement" - appeared in Science Fantasy and New Worlds in 1956....