Today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, explore the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Tales of survivors; in some cases struggling to rebuild society, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
