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- Publisher: Donald I Fine (1986)
- ASIN: B000M8VQOY
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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37 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
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By Babytoxie (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond Armageddon (Hardcover)
Yes, the book is out of print, but when I ordered it, the page said that it was still available, and I received it in 2 days. Hmmm... There's good and bad to this collection of 21 stories of nuclear devastation. *Bad* - Walter M. Miller's lengthy, rambling, and ultimately pointless foreword and story introductions, and the abundance of typos (did anyone proofread this?). *Good* - The selection of works. Bradbury, Ellison, Clarke, Zelazny, Pangborn, and many others. Plus, it includes one of my personal favorites, "By the Waters of Babylon" by Steven Vincent Benet. The cover is intriguing, as well... looks like Stanislaw Fernandes?
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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The ultimate apocalyptic short story collection,
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This review is from: Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead (Paperback)
This anthology contains the very best of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic short fiction, including such hard-to find classics as Harlan Elison's "A Boy and His Dog". Other personal favorites are Norman Spinrad's "The Big Flash", Edgar Pangborn's "A MAster of Babylon", Stephen Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon", William Tenn's "Eastward Ho!", Lucius Shepard's "Salvador" and... it's all there, really. Include an interesting and to-the-point foreword by editor Walter M. Miller (author of "A Canticle for Leibowitz"), and you've got the ultimate treat for a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction.(Note: Published in the UK as "Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar" Robinson, 1985)
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not so hot,
By W. Jason Gilmore (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beyond Armageddon (Paperback)
Rarely do I post a negative review, however I found this book to be a huge disappointment. Having recently read a number of great post-apocalyptic novels such as "One Second After", "Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse" (a *fantastic* compilation), and "The Road", I was eager to find more and so picked this up at my local library. After a great first story, my interest quickly waned due to what appears to be a hastily compiled collection of stories, some seemingly having fairly little to do with armageddon (I'd classify some of them as simply having a rather bleak storyline).
Add the editor's almost incomprehensible political rantings into the mix, and you have a book I suggest avoiding.
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For the most part, this book is about the aftermath of Megawar, but in a frequent speculative scenario, the last "war" in the world, rather than beginning with sneak megabangs by a superpower, escalates from a murderous scuffle where both sides are out of boundsin a place such as Iran, Cuba, Pakistan, Nicaragua; the scuffle builds through angry frustration to a few rounds of kiloton-level tactical violence, and thence to the insane confrontation: the last called bluff. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Quilla June, United States, New York, Four Horsemen, Hall of Music, Place of the Gods, Jerry Franklin, Dead Places, Sam Rutherford, Santa Barbara, Three Hydrogen Bombs, American Dream, Los Angeles, Makes Much Radiation, Brian Van Anda, Sarah Calvin, Andrew Carr, New Jersey, Rambla Catalina, Abraham Brown, Dan Davisson, Fundamental Weapon, Great Burning, Santa Ana, Store of the Worlds New!
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For the most part, this book is about the aftermath of Megawar, but in a frequent speculative scenario, the last "war" in the world, rather than beginning with sneak megabangs by a superpower, escalates from a murderous scuffle where both sides are out of boundsin a place such as Iran, Cuba, Pakistan, Nicaragua; the scuffle builds through angry frustration to a few rounds of kiloton-level tactical violence, and thence to the insane confrontation: the last called bluff. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Quilla June, United States, New York, Four Horsemen, Hall of Music, Place of the Gods, Jerry Franklin, Dead Places, Sam Rutherford, Santa Barbara, Three Hydrogen Bombs, American Dream, Los Angeles, Makes Much Radiation, Brian Van Anda, Sarah Calvin, Andrew Carr, New Jersey, Rambla Catalina, Abraham Brown, Dan Davisson, Fundamental Weapon, Great Burning, Santa Ana, Store of the Worlds New!
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- Terminal Beach by J G Ballard in Front Matter, page 109, and Back Matter
- Come on in Pb by David Winter on page 164
- Crazy Horse (Story of An American Indian) by John R. Milton on page 277
- The Crow Indians (Second Edition) by Robert H. Lowie on page 267
- Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1) by Tim LaHaye in Front Matter
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- Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in American Literature) by William H. Roberson on 12 pages
- American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film by David Seed on 4 pages
- The Sword of Forbearance: The Pelbar Cycle, Book Seven (Beyond Armageddon) (Bk. 7) by Paul O. Williams in Back Matter
- Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by David Oakes in Back Matter
- The Land of Promise by Philip Johnston on page 171
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