The New Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams

Author:John Joseph Adams [Adams, John Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies, science fiction
ISBN: 9781785658952
Google: sBbauwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1785658956
Goodreads: 43883459
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2019-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

SHOOTING THE APOCALYPSE

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Water Knife, a near-future thriller about climate change and drought in the southwestern United States. His novel The Windup Girl won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Ship Breaker—his first foray into young adult fiction—was a Michael L. Printz Award winner, and a National Book Award finalist, and its sequel, The Drowned Cities, was a Kirkus Best of YA selection, a Voya Perfect Ten Book, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He is also the author of the middle-grade novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and the YA novel The Doubt Factory. Paolo’s short fiction has appeared in Wired Magazine, High Country News, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, and elsewhere; has been collected in Pump Six and Other Stories; and has been nominated for three Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

If it were for anyone else, he would have just laughed in their faces and told them they were on their own.

The thought nagged at Timo as he drove his beat-up FlexFusion down the rutted service road that ran parallel to the concrete-lined canal of the Central Arizona Project. For any other journo who came down to Phoenix looking for a story, he wouldn’t even think of doing them a favor.

All those big names looking to swoop in like magpies and grab some meaty exclusive and then fly away just as fast, keeping all their page views and hits to themselves… he wouldn’t do it.

Didn’t matter if they were Google/NY Times, Cherry Xu, Facebook Social Now, Deborah Williams, Kindle Post, or Xinhua.

But Lucy? Well, sure. For Lucy, he’d climb into his sweatbox of a car with all his camera gear and drive his skinny brown ass out to North Phoenix and into the hills on a crap tip. He’d drive this way and that, burning gas trying to find a service road, and then bump his way through dirt and ruts, scraping the belly of the Ford the whole way, and he still wouldn’t complain.

Just goes to show you’re a sucker for a girl who wears her jeans tight.

But it wasn’t just that. Lucy was fine, if you liked a girl with white skin and little tits and wide hips, and sometimes Timo would catch himself fantasizing about what it would be like to get with her. But in the end, that wasn’t why he did favors for Lucy. He did it because she was scrappy and wet and she was in over her head—and too hard-assed and proud to admit it.

Girl had grit; Timo could respect that. Even if she came from up north and was so wet that sometimes he laughed out loud at the things she said. The girl didn’t know much about dry desert life, but she had grit.

So when she muttered over her Dos Equis that all the stories had already been done, Timo, in a moment of beery romantic fervor, had sworn to her that it just wasn’t so.

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