The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories, both pre- and post-apocalyptic, describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself. Many of the stories reflect on humankind's infinite capacity for self-destruction, but the stories are by no means all downbeat or depressing - one key theme explores what the aftermath of a cataclysm might be and how humans strive to survive.

There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself.

Contents:

When we went to see the end of the world - Robert Silverberg
The End of the World - Sushma Joshi
The Clockwork Atom Bomb - Dominic Green
Bloodletting - Kate Wilhelm
When Sysadmins ruled the World - Cory Doctorow
The Rain at the End of the World - Dale Bailey
The Flood - Linda Nagata
The End of the World Show - David Barnett
Fermi and Frost - Frederik Pohl
Sleepover - Alastair Reynolds
The Last Sunset - Geoffrey Landis
Moments of Inertia - William Barton
The Books - Kage Baker
Pallbearer - Robert Reed
And the Deep Blue Sea - Elizabeth Bear
The Meek - Damien Broderick
The Man who Walked Home - James Tiptree JR
A Pail of Air - Fritz Leiber
Guardians of the Phoenix - Eric Brown
Life in the Anthropocene - Paul di Filippo
Terraforming Terra - Jack Williamson
World Without End - F Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The Children of Time - Stephen Baxter
The Star called Wormwood - Elizabeth Counihan