Editor John Joseph Adams will sign a copy of his best-selling anthologies, THE LIVING DEAD and WASTELANDS, to the winner.
About THE LIVING DEAD: Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades
from many of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative
fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison
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Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite,
Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale,
The Living Dead,
covers the broad spectrum of zombie fiction, ranging from Romero-style
zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.
About WASTELANDS: Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two
decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of speculative
fiction — including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card,
Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King
— Wastelands
explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of
what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the
end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or
cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases
struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely
surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending
themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
John Joseph Adams is the editor of the anthologies
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Night Shade Books, January 2008),
Seeds of Change (Prime Books, August 2008), and
The Living Dead (Night Shade Books, September 2008). He is also the assistant editor at
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
He has written reviews for Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show and is the print news correspondent for SCI FI Wire (the news service of the SCI FI Channel). His non-fiction has also appeared in: Amazing Stories, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Locus Magazine, Novel & Short Story Writers Market, Science Fiction Weekly, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Writer’s Digest.
