The Doomsday Chronicles

Doomsday. The end of the world as we know it. Some say it will end in fire, some say in ice. Some say it will end with a bang, some with a whimper.

In this title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles series of speculative fiction anthologies created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, fifteen authors confront the Apocalypse, the end of days, the undiscovered country from which no traveler returns.

Description

The Doomsday Chronicles features stories by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning and bestselling authors Ken Liu (the Dandelion Dynasty series), Seanan McGuire (the InCryptid series), plus thirteen more of today’s top authors in speculative and science fiction.

What’s my contribution to this anthology?

Once again, I got opening billing in the volume for A Mother So Beautiful and I was so honored to get it. It is a reader favorite and probably my most deep (and dark) story yet.

Camille just wants a good relationship with her mother. That’s all. Is that too much to ask? Breaking through that cool exterior isn’t easy when all her mother wants to do is work on the cure for human violence. As their tangled relationship twists and turns, it turns out the end of the world is the only logical outcome.

This is probably my most favorite story ever (I mean, that I’ve written). I love the way it turned out. Like many of the others, this one is being slightly expanded and included in the volume, The Ways We End.