Wastelands: Stories of Life After Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams

“Wastelands: Stories of Life After Apocalypse collects 23 stories that range in publication dates from 1973 to 2006. Some of the stories have aged more gracefully than others. The questions raised by the powerful allegory of death envisioned as total Apocalypse fall by the wayside as editor John Joseph Adams gives too much leeway to the biggest stars of the speculative fiction world. As it is, I can wholly recommend half of the stories collected here. Wastelands ultimately fails as a collection because its editor did not allow a cohesive philosophy to guide his choices for the collection.” Read the review at Bookslut.