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The End Is Now

By: John Joseph Adams,Hugh Howey,Scott Sigler
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki,Mur Lafferty,Kate Baker,Scott Sigler,Anaea Lay,Tina Connolly,Norm Sherman
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Publisher's summary

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 best-selling 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 explores life after the apocalypse. The End Is Nigh is about the match. The End Has Come is about what will rise from the ashes. The End Is Now is about the conflagration.

Featuring stories by: Tananarive Due, Scott Sigler, Annie Bellet, Charlie Jane Anders, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Langan, Nancy Kress, David Wellington, Ken Liu, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, Megan Arkenberg, Jonathan Maberry, Jake Kerr, Daniel H. Wilson, Will McIntosh, Jamie Ford, Desirina Boskovich, Hugh Howey, and Robin Wasserman.

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Mur Lafferty, Kate Baker, Lex Wilson, Anaea Lay, Tina Connolly, Norm Sherman, Stephanie Grossman, Folly Blaine, Rajan Khanna, Windy Bowlsby, Scott Sigler, Laurice White.

©2014 John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (P)2014 John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey

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amature hour

some of these authors have impressed me in the past but there is nothing good here or anything original really the mechanical man story is the best of a bad lot , the narration is really bad especially the super intense whispering guy and the woman who reads like shes late for something.save your credit.

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Visions of sadness

There are no happy endings here. Only small victories and shattered dreams. Like its predecessor, not all stories and narrators are equal. Still worth listening to, if you like thought provoking stories.

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Loses a star because the last story is That Bad.

Excellent idea and overall excellent follow on to the first book. A couple of stories didn't quite fit the "co" part, more post apocalyptic. The standalone stories were good additions.

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Hit and miss anthology

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It *mostly* was. The two things I noticed were (1) these stories didn't really follow the theme of series as well as those in the first book - there were some great stories that really didn't have much to do with a 'the world is ending' anthology. (2) the readers were REALLY all over the place! Some were really good, and some were so awful I just couldn't listen to that story.

What other book might you compare The End Is Now to and why?

There are a couple other apocalypse theme anthologies on Audible, but really, it's compares well with any sci-fi story collection.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Various narrators, the quality was really inconsistent.

Did The End Is Now inspire you to do anything?

I may start saving more canned food and fresh water .. :-)

Any additional comments?

nope

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Stop using Laurice White as a narrator.

i skipped her story in the last book and skipped it in this one as well. She sounds like she's in 7th grade reading her creative writing essay about something super serious. She is monotone and boring as f. it sent me into a small fit of rage last book and I angrily exclaimed when she was the first stinking narrator in this one. Come on!

(will update review with more on other aspects soon)

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An short story collection written for the authors

This is what literary communism sounds like. They gather everyone and anyone interested in this topic, cull the lowest 10% and keep the rest. HUGE fluctuations in recording/writing quality. Shameless 'aspiring writer' bios after each story. They even mix up the order of the recurrent stories to force the listener who wants to listen to a specific sequel to listen to others of poorer quality. Vegans gone cannibal? I couldn't even get through that one. All of that said, some gems in the rough, but you better be willing to suffer to get to them. This was published for the authors, not for fans of the genre.

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Wow, that was bad

Poorly written short stories where nothing happens, with voice acting that one would assume could only be intentionally bad.

Dr. A

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bad ending...

I am afraid to say, this was a major disappointment after the first two books, which I read and loved. It didn't keep my attention, I couldn't hear it in "colors", which comes with a book you are immersed in. Anyway, just my thoughts.

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Loves all 3 of these.

More please!! I love the short stories. They are very hard to come by. I have all 3 audio books. I’m patiently waiting for more.

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Hard to follow

I appreciate what they were trying to do here breaking all the stories up to before, during and after. Scott Sigler mentions at the beginning of the book that you won't need to read the first one to know what is going on. I disagree, I did read the first one and I spend half of the story trying to figure out which one it's related to from the original book. Sometimes, I still can't figure it out. I think I would enjoy some of the stories more if they were all in one piece, it's just too hard to follow this way and some of the stories were really good.

I gotta say, the one with the air raid siren drove me insane! I ended up skipping it and fast forwarding to the next chapter!

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