After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh
After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh
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After the Apocalypse
Stories

Author: Maureen F. McHugh

Narrator: Thérèse Plummer, Angela Lin

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/21/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the Year In her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not sure what we'd do to survive the coming zombie plague. Praise for Maureen F. McHugh: "Gorgeously crafted stories."-Nancy Pearl, NPR "Hauntingly beautiful."-Booklist "Unpredictable and poetic work."-The Plain Dealer Maureen F. McHugh has lived in New York; Shijiazhuang, China; Ohio; Austin, Texas; and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of a Story Prize finalist collection, Mothers & Other Monsters, and four novels, including Tiptree Award-winner China Mountain Zhang and New York Times editor's choice Nekropolis. McHugh has also worked on alternate reality games for Halo 2, The Watchmen, and Nine Inch Nails, among others. io9 Best SF&F Books of 2011 Tiptree Award Honor List Philip K. Dick Award finalist Story Prize Notable Book

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 09, 2020

when this came into the store, i thought "huzzah" because i already own two of her other books that looked really good. of course, i have not read them. this is the way i operate - i buy books and i squirrel them away until it feels right to read them, frequently owning several books by a single aut......more

Goodreads review by David on March 01, 2012

Maureen McHugh has a knack—and I say 'knack' because it's even more elusive and intuitive than a talent—for investing each of her short stories with an immediately recognizable humanity, even when trafficking in genre tropes or the wantonly fantastical. In the premiere story 'The Naturalist,' the tr......more

Goodreads review by Joshua Nomen-Mutatio on January 18, 2013

Despairing about the proliferation of the generally repetitive short story collection? Fear and tremble not, for After the Apocalypse is here to save the day. Maureen F. McHugh’s collection continually conjured up the word "solid" and not in a patronizing way that one might use that word to politely......more