After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake--whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. "New York Times "bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology. Introduction by Genevieve Valentine The Segment After the Cure by Carrie Ryan Valedictorian by N. K. Jemisin Visiting Nelson by Katherine Langrish All I Know of Freedom by Carol Emshwiller The Other Elder by Beth Revis The Great Game at the End of the World by Matthew Kressel Reunion by Susan Beth Pfeffer Blood Drive by Jeffrey Ford Reality Girl by Richard Bowes How Th’irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ Homeskool.guv by Richard Bowes Rust with Wings by Steven Gould Faint Heart by Sarah Rees Brennan The Easthound by Nalo Hopkinson Gray by Jane Yolen Before by Carolyn Dunn Fake Plastic Trees by Caitlín R. Kiernan You Won’t Feel a Thing by Garth Nix The Marker by Cecil Castellucci