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Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning. THE END IS NIGH is about the match.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction by John Joseph Adams | The Balm and the Wound by Robin Wasserman | Heaven is a Place on Planet X by Desirina Boskovich | Break! Break! Break! by Charlie Jane Anders | The Gods Will Not Be Chained by Ken Liu | Wedding Day by Jake Kerr | Removal Order by Tananarive Due | System Reset by Tobias S. Buckell | This Unkempt World is Falling to Pieces by Jamie Ford | BRING HER TO ME by Ben H. Winters | In the Air by Hugh Howey | Goodnight Moon by Annie Bellet | Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod by Will McIntosh | Houses Without Air by Megan Arkenberg | The Fifth Day of Deer Camp by Scott Sigler | Enjoy the Moment by Jack McDevitt | Pretty Soon the Four Horsemen are Going to Come Riding Through by Nancy Kress | Spores by Seanan McGuire | She's Got a Ticket to Ride by Jonathan Maberry | Agent Unknown by David Wellington | Enlightenment by Matthew Mather | Shooting the Apocalypse by Paolo Bacigalupi | Love Perverts by Sarah Langan.

Reviewer: Iza
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really enjoyed it
Review: The stories are short and well written, had a good time reading it.

Reviewer: kathy
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the best anthologies
Review: Some people may think what I have written have some *spoilers*. Gave a very brief overview and my thoughts on the stories.This anthology is the best I have read. In any book with so many stories, some hit the mark, some don't. There is a little bit for everyone. I feel lucky that the first few stories I chose to read were really great. That is what kept me involved and reading "just one more" before putting it down for the night.I wanted to comment on a few of the stories.Goodnight Moon by Annie Bellet is my favorite. A tear jerker about astronauts on the moon and an impending asteroid and life and death decisions. Beautifully written.Spores by Seanan McGuire was really great. Creepy good and it has to do with mold!She's Got a Ticket To Ride by Jonathan Mayberry. At first I was thinking how similar it was to Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate. But after that was mentioned in the story, it went beyond that idea and will have you re-thinking what a "cult" really is. I enjoyed it very much.In The Air by Hugh Howey. Let me just say this: If only Shift was this compact and short...Shooting The Apocalypse by Paolo Bacigalupi. I was really looking forward to this one and maybe I will re-visit it but I was not interested in this one.Dancing With Death in the Land of the Nod by Will McIntosh and Wedding Day by Jake Kerr are very different types of stories but both have an ironic twist that make these two really special. Dancing With Death involves an incurable disease that puts its victims into a paralysis but they can still think clearly. One of the main characters in the story is a caretaker for his father who has Alzheimer's. The irony is when the main character thanks good "family genes". Read it, it is a great one. In Wedding Day, a to be married lesbian couple has a chance to escape certain death from an impending meteor strike if only the government didn't halt all marriages.Removal Order by Tananarive Due. With no real explanation of what has caused the world to go into its demise, the story jumps right in with Nayama who is taking care of her Grandmother who has cancer. A story about sacrifice and love. Caring for a loved one outweighs the fact that the world is dying around you.Heaven is a Place on Planet X by Desirina Boskovich. A strange but interesting story about an alien invasion. The aliens are going to zap the whole world into dust but promises a new heavenly life on a new planet that will occur on a certain date at an exact time. First though, random people around the world are chosen as enforcers to eliminate anyone who doesn't follow instructions given by the aliens. I am hoping this story has a continuation in the next book, the end is filled with foreboding of the ultimate fate of the enforcers. A story that warns about Propaganda and blindly following those that use power and violence to get people to submit.Finally, I think it is interesting that a few reader's complained or felt the need to comment on some type of "gay agenda" with a few of the stores. I feel bad for ignorant people. Dystopian/Apocalyptic stories almost always have messages about politics, propaganda, societal values, religious beliefs, anarchy etc. To me, any complaint about a story being a "political gay rights agenda" story is so foolish. The story "Wedding Day" has so much depth and makes such a powerful statement about inequity (for any class or type of person). It is too bad that some people can not allow themselves to open their mind to the bigger meaning.

Reviewer: David Nasty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Like almost al
Review: 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! .

Reviewer: Book Worm
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enjoyable stories but intrusive political messaging got very irritating
Review: I enjoyed reading about half the stories in the book but there were quite a few I found fairly mediocre and a couple were so unpleasant I had to skip through them. The standouts were definitely Ben Winters, Hugh Howey, Jonathan Maberry and Scott Sigler, as you would expect, but there were a couple of others that I really enjoyed that were by authors I had never heard of before.However, at the risk of copping the same belting that one of the other reviewers got for commenting on the homosexual activism permeating the anthology, I have to say I really hate having political messages shoved down my throat gratuitously like that. By the end of the anthology, the heavy handed social lecturing was having a very perverse and negative effect on me, so if the authors were trying to be subtle, I would have to say they failed completely.

Reviewer: Baku
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Die Geschichten selber sind gut, allerdings wird diese Reihe als "Triptych" verkauft und es wird damit geworben, dass die Geschichten sich durch alle drei Bücher ziehen. Ich hatte mich beim letzten Buch teilweise gewundert, warum mir Geschichten völlig unbekannt vorkamen, das lag daran, dass die im vorhergehenden Buch noch nicht enthalten waren, andere hatte ich widerrum vermisst. Manche Autoren machen es gut, den Leser im nächsten Buch gleich wieder einzufangen, aber das gelingt nicht allen. Wer eine Übersicht haben will, welche Stories sich über alle drei Bücher ziehen, es findet sich auf siglerpedia.scottsiegler + Apocalypse Tritptych eine gute Liste.

Reviewer: Elsa Cristina T. Vieira
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Uns contos são melhores do que outros, claro, mas a ideia é excelente e é uma boa leitura

Reviewer: Anonymous H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Really enjoyed this whole collection. Quite a few names I recognised, plenty I didn't, so that gives me authors to look into next time I'm looking for something new to read. Diverse casts an extra plus.

Reviewer: Jennifer Bankier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is the best apocalypse-themed collection that I have read. Many of the authors are gripping writers, and there are some new ideas for the form an apocalypse might take.My favourite of the stories is "The Balm and the Wound" by Robin Wasserman, who manages to create a viewpoint character who is both a credible and at least partly likeable religous conman who finds he has accidentally pinpointed the date of an apocalypse for his religious community. The story also provides a convincing identification of the emotional benefits that a religion can provide, even when it has been invented by a human. (I am an agnostic by the way, so praise from me of this kind is a major complement to the author.)

Reviewer: Valerio Pastore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Non c'è romanzo del genere catastrofico che non ci abbia presentato, per iniziare, il modo in cui il mondo può finire.Non c'è storia postapocalittica che non abbia accennato ai nefasti eventi che hanno preceduto la distopia.Ma non c'era ancora stata un'antologia su questo genere che affrontasse solo e solamente il PRIMA, quella catena lunga o breve di eventi, di coincidenze, di errori umani, o semplice fato che doveva portare ad un punto solo.La fine di tutto.Oltre 300 pagine che in questa accurata antologia selezionano ogni modo in cui dobbiamo prepararci a dire addio, chiederci non dove eravamo quando successe, ma dove saremo quando succederà. Cosa fare per rendere l'ultimo giorno il più bello, nelle piccole cose o nelle scelte più difficili.Tanto, non ci sarà un domani.