Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild.

THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH tells their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

THE END HAS COME features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Carrie Vaughn, Mira Grant, Jamie Ford, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, Scott Sigler, and many others.

THE END IS NIGH is about the match.

THE END IS NOW is about the conflagration.

THE END HAS COME is about what will rise from the ashes.


CONTENTS

01 - Carrie Vaughn, Bannerless
02 - Megan Arkenberg, Like All Beautiful Places
03 - Will McIntosh, Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod
04 - Scott Sigler, The Seventh Day of Deer Camp
05 - Sarah Langan, Prototype
06 - Chris Avellone, Acts of Creation
07 - Seanan McGuire, Resistance
08 - Leife Shallcross, Wandering Star
09 - Ben H. Winters, Heaven Come Down
10 - David Wellington, Agent Neutralized
11 - Annie Bellet, Goodnight Earth
12 - Tananarive Due, Carriers
13 - Robin Wasserman, In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land
14 - Jamie Ford, The Uncertainty Machine
15 - Elizabeth Bear, Margin of Survival
16 - Jonathan Maberry, Jingo and the Hammerman
17 - Charlie Jane Anders, The Last Movie Ever Made
18 - Jake Kerr, The Gray Sunrise
19 - Ken Liu, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain
20 - Hugh Howey, In the Woods
21 - Nancy Kress, Blessings