Beyond Armageddon, Walter M Miller & Martin H Greenberg, UK pb 1987

This paperback is a great collection of short stories edited by Walter M Miller & Martin H Greenberg 'BEYOND ARMAGEDDON' published by Robinson Books in the UK in 1987. Book is in fair condition. 386 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: Arranged in a rough future chronology, they include such classics as J. G. Ballard's apocalyptic ''Terminal Beach,'' Stephen Vincent Benet's vision of a ruined New York in ''By the Waters of Babylon,'' Ray Bradbury's nostalgic ''There Will Come Soft Rains'' and Harlan Ellison's fierce ''A Boy and His Dog.'' Where most seek metaphors of devastation, the less well known stories are sometimes grittier, for example, Lucius Shepard's ''Salvador,'' on a possible future Vietnam, Jim Aiken's nasty ''My Life in the Jungle'' and Poul Anderson's 1946 ''Tomorrow's Children,'' the only story here to mention the effect of nuclear winter and the story that deals most pragmatically and tragically with the human consequences of radiation-induced mutations. Altogether, a thought-provoking, varied and well chosen anthology.