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The End is Nigh Apocalypse Triptych Book 1 eBook John Joseph Adams Hugh Howey Jamie Ford Paolo Bacigalupi Seanan McGuire Sarah Langan Nancy Kress Jonathan Maberry Tananarive Due Scott Sigler Charlie Jane Anders

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The End is Nigh Apocalypse Triptych Book 1 eBook John Joseph Adams Hugh Howey Jamie Ford Paolo Bacigalupi Seanan McGuire Sarah Langan Nancy Kress Jonathan Maberry Tananarive Due Scott Sigler Charlie Jane Anders

This collection of stories is one of the best anthologies that I've ever read and the idea of stringing three books together into a triptych is brilliant. This book is the first in a set of three book dealing with the apocalypse, this one containing stories specifically leading up to the end and the next two with stories taking place during and after. Every story in this collection brought me to a new view of the upcoming end to the world. Even though a few of the stories have a similar method of ending the world, every story was pleasantly unique. The real greatness of every story in this collection comes from the people in the stories and how they react to their unique situation. Every story left me wanting to know what happened next. Fortunately, many of the authors are doing continuations of their stories in the subsequent books. I'm hesitant to share anything specific about the stories for fear of spoiling anything. The joy of reading this book is, starting a story knowing the world is going to end for the people you are reading about,but not knowing how it will happen or what they will do.


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The End is Nigh Apocalypse Triptych Book 1 eBook John Joseph Adams Hugh Howey Jamie Ford Paolo Bacigalupi Seanan McGuire Sarah Langan Nancy Kress Jonathan Maberry Tananarive Due Scott Sigler Charlie Jane Anders Reviews

This is Volume 1 of a three volume trilogy of Apocalyptic Science Fiction Stories. The introduction indicates that most of the authors have signed up to do follow-up stories in Volumes 2 and 3. Volume 1 stories take you up to the apocalypse while Volume 2 and 3 stories will take place during and after the apocalypse.

Because of the nature of the trilogy, Volume 1 stories, although they can be read stand-alone, generally left me wanting more. Because most of the authors are returning for Volume 2 and 3, some of the stories in Volume 1 seemed somewhat incomplete (as if a longer story was written but cut off to be placed in the subsequent volumes of the trilogy).

Therefore, the criteria I personally used for rating this book was whether the stories were interesting enough for me to purchase Volume 2. The answer was yes as I really liked 12 of the 22 stories and wanted to know what comes next. Even the other 10 stories were not bad (only a couple I didn't care for at all).
Each story is fantastic, with well-thought out variations on TEOTWAWKI. You get prions, GMO, nanotechnology, asteroids, and even mutations -a little something for everyone. I read the entire collection in about two hours because I simply couldn't put it down. My only complaint is the agonizing wait for the next part of the triptych!
Like almost al. John Adams anthologies, this volume has higher qualitywriting than most and at least a few ,if not more, undicovered authors whose short format stories make you want to go out and explore rtheir other writings. The other best thing about the anthology is that there is no repetitive cookie-cutter 'writing to the book' themes in the entire work. All stories set up different points of view , e.g. a struggling mother of two who feels there is something deciededly different in one of her children and his peers, all born after a Kracatoa-type volanic eruption. The author coveys a sense of foreboding that reflects a fear of all parents , that their child is 'different'. A powerful short story that sticks in your consciousness. Not all the stories are to every taste , which is actually another reason for the rave review. Too many " Wolfman Zobie in space " collections are boring when the same setting generates the same story over and over so that by the time you get to later stories you are numb and your imagination has been starved into submission. No way is ths anothogy like that , the last story read is as fresh as the first and different enough to keep your interest rivited . Good read! .
As far as collections go, the End is Nigh is one of the better non-best-of-year ones that I’ve read. The stories are consistently good, with no outright fails, and many that stand out as exceptional. Conceptually, the Apocalypse Triptych, of which the End is Nigh is volume one, is ingenious. I especially liked the promise that several of the authors would have stories in the other two volumes, detailing the ‘during’ and ‘after’ timelines. However, this backfired somewhat… though not abysmally so, but at times I was indeed bothered. I haven’t read the others in the triptych yet (and I do plan to) but several of the stories here have such a clear lack of resolution that they feel incomplete. I have no problem with a good Flash Gorden-esque cliffhanger, and some go that route, but others just kind of stop, as if a longer story had been divided into three volumes. I feel nitpicky pointing this out, but I think it’s important to acknowledge. In the long run, I may double back and decide that, in fact, judging the triptych as a whole, this turned out to be very effective, but as a single volume, some of the stories are simply incomplete. To end on a positive note, I wanted to highlight some of the stories I enjoyed the most. ‘Shooting the Apocalypse’ by Paolo Bacigalupi has an impressive style, creepy but tangible, and a setting simultaneously unique and familiar. ‘Love Perverts’ is definitely perverted, and I hope Sarah Langan has another story in the next volume, she must! ‘The Fifth Day of Deer Camp’ by Scott Sigler is absolutely a day time read, unless you plan on waiting out the night armed by a boarded up window. And ‘BRING HER TO ME’ by Ben H. Winters covers territory I haven’t ever read before, and I hope and expect to see more of him later in the triptych as well. All said and done, this is a good solid start to a great idea. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey did not let me down.
A myriad of end of the world stories.
Some were very good, thought provoking. New ideas or different takes on older ideas.
Others were meh, at best.
A few, in the name of PC/inclusiveness tried to put those aspects into their stories. If the stories were longer, that aspect may of added something in character development or relationship interaction.
Unfortunately, for the most part, it did little or nothing to help the story. One story was very good right up to the end . . . and then the author added a PC/inclusive line, that did nothing for the story at all, and all I could say was, "Really?"
This collection of stories is one of the best anthologies that I've ever read and the idea of stringing three books together into a triptych is brilliant. This book is the first in a set of three book dealing with the apocalypse, this one containing stories specifically leading up to the end and the next two with stories taking place during and after. Every story in this collection brought me to a new view of the upcoming end to the world. Even though a few of the stories have a similar method of ending the world, every story was pleasantly unique. The real greatness of every story in this collection comes from the people in the stories and how they react to their unique situation. Every story left me wanting to know what happened next. Fortunately, many of the authors are doing continuations of their stories in the subsequent books. I'm hesitant to share anything specific about the stories for fear of spoiling anything. The joy of reading this book is, starting a story knowing the world is going to end for the people you are reading about,but not knowing how it will happen or what they will do.