Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the
mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of
literature, this explosive collection of the world's best apocalyptic writers
brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday
scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang. The best
writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves,
destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay
waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. Now collected for the first time ever
in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their
contemporaries,