It was when I first read Stephen King's The Stand (almost twenty-five years ago now) that I first realised that dystopia/post-apocalyptic fiction was for me. We, as humans, have our flaws, but none can doubt the indomitable spirit we posses, and the sheer bloody-mindedness that allows us to survive in the harshest of environments, under the most difficult circumstances. And the final words neatly sum up what it is I find so compelling about the dystopian genre - what the world would look like following a major disaster and more importantly, just how the survivors, human kind, would cope.
The above paragraph is the synopsis for Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, a collection of short stories written by a number of the world's most successful and talented writers. Whether by nuclear warfare, a biological disaster or an ecological/geological disaster it is in the wake of this great cataclysm that the survivors have to adapt and survive.
These are said to be the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse-Armageddon.
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