After the Apocalypse: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931520291 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the YearIn her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not sure what we'd do to survive the coming zombie plague.Praise for Maureen F. McHugh has also worked on alternate reality games for Halo 2, The Watchmen, and Nine Inch Nails, among others.io9 Best SF&F Books of 2011Tiptree Award Honor ListPhilip K. She is the author of a Story Prize finalist collection, Mothers & Other Monsters, and four novels, including Tiptree Award-winner China Mountain Zhang and New York Times editor's choice Nekropolis. McHugh has lived in New York; Shijiazhuang, China; Ohio; Austin, Texas; and now lives in Los Angeles, California. McHugh delves into the dark heart of conte
The end of the world as we know it will never be the same again.”SalonThe best stories in this mesmerizing collection from the L.A. They keep their innocent curiosity for the world even as it falls to pieces."Wall Street JournalThe stories in After the Apocalypse will catch many readers off-guard; they’re suspenseful, but they never quite go where you expect them to. An imaginative homage to the human ability to endure.”Booklist (*starred review*). McHugh's characters insist on investing themselves in flirtations, friendships and jobs. There is no post-apocalyptic glamour in these post-apocalyptic tales.”Cleve
Christopher Barzak said Worlds that End With Both a Bang and a Whimper. Maureen McHugh is well known in science fiction circles, mainly in the circles that admire high quality, character centered scifi. Back in the 90s, she debuted with a hugely awesome novel-in-stories (before that term was conceived of) called China Mountain Zhang (read that book, too!). She went on to write a number of other novels, and one other collection (Mothers and Other Monsters, also recommended), and has been spending time writing Alternate Reality Games and is now writing film scripts. Most of the stories were forgettable My favorite stories were "The Naturalist" and "Kingdom of the Blind," which, ironically, share a theme.. "Solid and Powerful Prose, Great Variance of Subject Matter" according to Amazon Customer. Despairing about the proliferation of the generally repetitive short story collection? Fear and tremble not, for After the Apocalypse is here to save the day.Maureen F. McHugh's collection continually conjured up the word "solid" and not in a patronizing way that one might use that word to politely describe an artistic effort that follows all the rules yet fails to captivate one's attention or stimulate any of the other nerves in want of stimulation from art--but in the sense that it was take