skepticalri's review
4.0
It's been so damn long since I've started this book that I can't remember which stories I liked and which ones I didn't. I'm finally giving up on the last ones.
bert10's review
2.0
It was OK. None of the short stories were amazing and most of them did not make me want to look into reading more from the authors. However I did find a few new authors to try out and it was at times an enjoyable read.
ajuda's review
3.0
I'd give this 3.5 stars if that was an option. A good range of stories, some much better than others. Surprisingly, for an anthology this limited the stories are actually quite varied, which I appreciated. Some, unfortunately, were not as good at world-building in such a small amount of space, so I wasn't as able to get into them. Worth a read though, if you're into apocalyptic fiction.
bitterindigo's review
4.0
Really solid collection, with only one or two that didn't grab me. Favourites: Never, Never, Three Times Never by Simon Morden, Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn and A Story, With Beans, by Steven Gould. The Brian Evenson story was predictably bleak and creepy (in a positive sense, as odd as that sounds).
felinity's review
4.0
4.5 stars
This is a great collection of short stories, each of which shows a snatch of life (I'm trying to avoid the word "vignette", which implies scenes rather than full stories) for normal people after The End.
The exact nature of The End varies, from biowarfare to cataclysmic climate change to interference from outside. Sometimes the cause of The End is not discussed, because it just is, and sometimes The End is recent, and sometimes The End was generations ago, and sometimes technology is gone and sometimes it has survived, but always the people portrayed are doing what they think necessary to survive. And survival is sometimes civilized, and sometimes not...
Disclaimer: I received a free copy for honest review through Netgalley.
This is a great collection of short stories, each of which shows a snatch of life (I'm trying to avoid the word "vignette", which implies scenes rather than full stories) for normal people after The End.
The exact nature of The End varies, from biowarfare to cataclysmic climate change to interference from outside. Sometimes the cause of The End is not discussed, because it just is, and sometimes The End is recent, and sometimes The End was generations ago, and sometimes technology is gone and sometimes it has survived, but always the people portrayed are doing what they think necessary to survive. And survival is sometimes civilized, and sometimes not...
Disclaimer: I received a free copy for honest review through Netgalley.
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