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Anthology contains: - Introduction / James R. Frenkel
- The Nine Billion Names of God / Arthur C. Clarke
- Killing the Morrow / Robert Reed
- We Can Get Them for You Wholesale / Neil Gaiman
- Fire Catcher / Richard Kadrey
- Not with a Bang / Howard Fast
- Lost and Found / Connie Willis
- The Wind and the Rain / Robert Silverberg
- The Year of the Jackpot / Robert A. Heinlein
- Expendable / Philip K. Dick
- Finis / Frank L. Pollack
- A Guide to Virtual Death / J. G. Ballard
- Emissary from a Green and Yellow World / Robert Sheckley
- The Portable Phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Fermi and Frost / Frederik Pohl
- Ultimate Construction / C. C. Shackleton
- The Manhattan Phone Book [Abridged] / John Varley
- The Man Who Walked Home / James Tiptree, Jr.
- Interview with a Lemming / James Thurber
- The Last Question [Multivac] / Isaac Asimov
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Of course, I still love long books, I just often don't have the time. The difficulty with short story anthologies is finding absolutely brilliant, thought-provoking ones that showcase both up-and-coming and established authors. It can be a bit of a gamble.
Bangs and Whimpers delivers on all fronts. Every time I've started to tell someone about this book, intending to tell them about just one short story in particular I think they would find of interest, I find myself saying something like, "Oh, yeah, and there was this other one that explored an end-of-the-world scenario where we planted the seeds to a new creation by . . . "
This book is amazing. Each short story approached the Ending of All Things from a different vantage point and perception. Where one author chose to think that the annihilation of life on earth meant the end of life forever, another author saw a thin thread of hope in the distant future. Where one author wrote with detached omniscience, another wrote in intimate first-person. Each story has a unique style and vision, but they all have one thing in common -- they are brilliantly, captivatingly written. This book should not be missed. ( )