The Cupbearers of the Last Sea
On a dying world, one sea remains — and the priesthood that rations it drop by drop must answer a thief who was once one of their own.
Stories tagged “post-apocalyptic”
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The Keeping of October
Everyone who ever meant to leave Earth finally did, and a house-machine named Halbert was left behind with eleven seconds of October he refuses to lose.
The City We Came To
The Folk of the High Tower called my visit 'the slow season,' because I was, by their standard, very slow. They flew from the river to the rooftop in fourteen wingbeats. I, on foot, took most of an afternoon.
The Last Postcard
Mavis Tinker was the last human on Earth, and she ran a diner that had no customers, in a town called Otterford, in what had once been Wisconsin. This was in 2089.
Advance Notice
The message from the future arrived at 3:14 on a Thursday, which was inconvenient, because most of the people qualified to read it were at lunch. It had traveled eighty-one years to reach us.
The Salt Keepers
You have always known the ocean was dying. You were born knowing it, the way you were born knowing your own name — Essun — and the names of the salts.