Scorch Atlas: A Belated Primer is a 2009 short story collection written by Blake Butler and published by Featherproof Books.

[1] Featherproof Books published Butler's Scorch Atlas in 2009,[2] a 188-page collection of 13 short stories in the post-apocalyptic fiction genre.

[4] Literary critic Lee Quinby writes that although Scorch Atlas presents a powerful image of post-apocalyptic life, its descriptions are so despairing that readers may experience "boredom in the face of repeated anguish".

[3] Anne-Laurre Tissut, a scholar of American literature, writes that the text "absorbs the reader" through its language and its focus on the body.

[6] Reviewer Nina MacLaughlin writes that the essential point of the novel is not "narrative arc or character development" but the accumulation of particular images and words.