Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence--the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon--these are our guides through the Wastelands. Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres today, including George R. R. Martin, Hugh Howey, Junot D├¡az, David Brin, and many more. This eclectic mix of tales explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse. Like its predecessor, Wastelands 2 delves into a bleak landscape to uncover the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core. "[An] anthology of bone-chilling, consciousness-raising postapocalyptic stories." -- "Barnes & Noble, editorial review" John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, including Wastelands , The Living Dead , and The Way of the Wizard . A six-time Hugo finalist and five-time World Fantasy Award nominee, he is also the editor and publisher of the magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare as well as the cohost of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. George R. R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone , Beauty and the Beast , and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, a big white dog called Mischa, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place. Junot Díaz is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and This Is How You Lose Her , a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, he is fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and is the Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wool series. The Wool Omnibus Edition won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award--it has been as high as #1 on Amazon--and forty countries have picked up the work for translation. David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant, and winner of the Freedom of Speech Award. His novels--including Earth , The Postman , Startide Rising , and Kiln People-- have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. He lives near San Diego, California.