After

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