"After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia" is a collection of original short stories that explore the diverse and imaginative landscape of post-apocalyptic worlds and dystopian futures. Each tale delves into the resilience of the human spirit and the nuances of survival in the face of despair. Through a mix of genres and styles, Sarah Rees Brennan presents characters grappling with loss, hope, and the struggle for identity amidst chaos. The stories challenge readers to reflect on societal issues, the fragility of civilization, and the possibilities that arise when everything familiar is stripped away. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 13-17 years.

There are 384 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2013 by Turtleback Books .

Terri Windling has been a fiction editor for more than thirty years and has won many awards for her work. She has published more than forty anthologies (often in partnership with Ellen Datlow), as well as her own novels, children's books, and nonfiction on fantasy, folklore, and mythic arts. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor. " Her adult novel The Wood Wife won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, her collection The Armless Maiden was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the YA anthology Teeth (co-edited with Ellen Datlow) was short-listed for the Shirley Jackson Award. A former New Yorker, Terri lives with her husband and daughter in a small country village in Devon, England. Cecil Castellucci grew up in New York and studied theatre and film in Paris, Los Angeles and Montreal. She performs and composes music (under the name Cecil Seaskull), writes plays and even works for MTV! "If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling-as writer, as painter, as editor, as muse. " -Jane Yolen Sarah Rees Brennan was born, raised, and lives in Ireland. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Tell the Wind and Fire, the Lynburn Legacy series, and Season of the Witch (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Book 1), among others.