Contains: [End of the Whole Mess](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650789W/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess) / Stephen King -- Salvage / Orson Scott Card -- People of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Bread and bombs / M. Rickert -- How we got in town and out again / Jonathan Lethem -- Dark, dark were the tunnels / George R.R. Martin -- Waiting for the Zephyr / Tobias S. Buckell -- Never despair / Jack McDevitt -- When Sysdmins ruled the Earth / Cory Doctorow -- Last of the O-forms / James Van Pelt -- Still life with Apocalypse / Richard Kadrey -- Artie's angels / Catherine Wells -- Judgment passed / Jerry Oltion -- Mute / Gene Wolfe -- Inertia / Nancy Kress -- And the deep blue sea / Elizabeth Bear -- Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler -- Killers / Carol Emshwiller -- Ginny Sweethips' flying circus / Neal Barrett, Jr. -- End of the word as we know it / Dale Bailey -- Song before sunset / David Grigg -- Episode seven : Last stand against the pack in the kingdom of the purple flowers / John Langan.