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Armageddons
  
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Armageddons (Turtleback)

by Jack Dann (Author), Gardner R. Dozois (Author)
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A collection of millennial apocalypse scenarios by science fiction masters offers frightening, and sometimes plausible, glimpses into the end times, with contributions by Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, William Barton, and nine others. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Some good stuff but a lot of filler, Nov. 18 2001
This review is from: Armageddons (Paperback)
For those not familiar with the format, Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois have compiled a large number of themed anthologies each of which contains a number of stories dealing with a single topic. This book fills its 269 pages with twelve stories on the subject of the end of the world. They date from 1951 to 1998. Five of those stories are well worth reading but the rest are filler.

The finest story here is "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Lieber. It tells of a dark star passing through the solar system and dragging the Earth away. Without the sun it gets so cold that even the air freezes. How can people survive in this world? The other truely outstanding tale is Frederick Pohl's "Fermi and Frost" which describes a world slowly freezing over in the wake of a nuclear war. If you have not read those two stories before, they pretty well justify buying the book.

Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress and Raccoona Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) merit mention for their three stories all of which deal with the potential of advanced biotechnology to finish us off.

The remaining stories do contain some interesting ideas but in general, they are just not very well written and I think that the editors could have been more critical in the material that they included.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Things to do when the world ends, Sep 6 2000
Par Marian Powell (Silver City, New Mexico United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Armageddons (Paperback)
This is a fine exploration of the various ways the world could end. I disagree with the other reviewer here for the stories are about people coping with disaster, trying to find ways to salvage something out of the wreckage. The stories are divided into two categories. The first stories in the book are about how man brings disaster on himself (nuclear war, overpopulation, etc.) The last half is of disaster coming upon the earth (asteroid strikes etc). What makes the stories enjoyable is that they are about survivors, not victims. In fact, one story details a desperate plan to avert the threat of overpopulation -- at a terrible cost. Most of the stories really fall into the action/adventure category with the stakes being extremely high.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Famine, Pestillence, Death, War, Jui 20 2000
This review is from: Armageddons (Paperback)
This is the perfect book for people who see the human race as the Earth's cancer. If you think the human race deserves to be wiped out, you'll be in for a treat.

"Armageddons" is a collection of twelve short stories about the end of the world, imagined by some of science fiction's best known writers. The twelve stories are imaginitive scenarios that describe how the human race could become extinct, whether it be through nuclear war, plague, pollution, or natural disaster.

It's amazing how pessimistic some people can be. You wonder if some of these writers are really telling stories or setting down prophecies.

Anthony Burgess once had something to say about apocalyptic stories. He believed that so-called "warnings" about the end of the world were really just wish-fulfillment. There is a part of us that deperately wants the apocalypse to come. That's why it captures are imaginations so much. Burgess was mainly referring to stories about the third world war. Still, there could be something in what he said.

If you ponder things like the end of the world then "Amageddons" will definitely whet your appetite.

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