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Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Some stories were good, some were interesting, but most of the stories did not stick with me, like good stories should.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Her bat connected on the first swing, crumpling the bug's body in a splatter of pus and blood. She stared at the thing. This was the first time she'd taken a good look. the body was small and feathered, hummingbird-like, but the tail was long and thin and ended in a bob sporting a serrated stinger. The head she wasn't sure about, but it was a bony version of a bird, only with a coiled proboscis instead of a beak.
She wretched, at once glad she hadn't eaten lately and doubly that she retained enough sanity to react at all.
The thing was an abomination. How did it even know how to fly? And how did those dogs on campus sprout tentacles from their mouths and turn on their owners? But they did just the same. Just like all the affected animals and plants. As if something deep in their genetic code had been coiled and waiting to pounce.
There is plenty of variety in this themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories. Some of the apocalypses are caused by man, either deliberately by setting off an EMP weapon, accidentally when a radiation leak leaves San Francisco smothered by out of control plant growth, or due to the hubris of scientists when nanobots or a cure for Alzheimers don't behave as expected. The majority are science fiction, and some are horror. There are several very different zombie outbreaks, including a disease that leaves the dead as quiet zombies which follow people around wthout attacking. There is also one fantasy story, set in Paris after time has stopped, leaving only children between the ages of seven and fourteen alive and forever young, while the rest of the population have become a dangerous type of ghost.
My favourite story is "The Dew of Heaven Like Ashes", a story in which civilisation has fallen after plants and animals suddenly turn into savage monsters (so that a head of maize can killl and eat a bird that lands on it). This is one of the stories in which the cause of the apocalypse is never explained, and I like that. If civilisation collapsed that quickly, you might not know the cause, and even if someone did know, they might not have time to get the news out before the radio and television stations went off the air. I also like the way Bree can make her way across the country armed only with a baseball bat to protect herself from swarms of monstrous insects. I just hope she doesn't have to go through cougar or bear country!
The other stories which made it into my top three are "Cast Upon the Water" (apocalypse by flood) and "Here I Walk" (apocalypse by EMP).… (mehr)
She wretched, at once glad she hadn't eaten lately and doubly that she retained enough sanity to react at all.
The thing was an abomination. How did it even know how to fly? And how did those dogs on campus sprout tentacles from their mouths and turn on their owners? But they did just the same. Just like all the affected animals and plants. As if something deep in their genetic code had been coiled and waiting to pounce.
There is plenty of variety in this themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories. Some of the apocalypses are caused by man, either deliberately by setting off an EMP weapon, accidentally when a radiation leak leaves San Francisco smothered by out of control plant growth, or due to the hubris of scientists when nanobots or a cure for Alzheimers don't behave as expected. The majority are science fiction, and some are horror. There are several very different zombie outbreaks, including a disease that leaves the dead as quiet zombies which follow people around wthout attacking. There is also one fantasy story, set in Paris after time has stopped, leaving only children between the ages of seven and fourteen alive and forever young, while the rest of the population have become a dangerous type of ghost.
My favourite story is "The Dew of Heaven Like Ashes", a story in which civilisation has fallen after plants and animals suddenly turn into savage monsters (so that a head of maize can killl and eat a bird that lands on it). This is one of the stories in which the cause of the apocalypse is never explained, and I like that. If civilisation collapsed that quickly, you might not know the cause, and even if someone did know, they might not have time to get the news out before the radio and television stations went off the air. I also like the way Bree can make her way across the country armed only with a baseball bat to protect herself from swarms of monstrous insects. I just hope she doesn't have to go through cougar or bear country!
The other stories which made it into my top three are "Cast Upon the Water" (apocalypse by flood) and "Here I Walk" (apocalypse by EMP).… (mehr)
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.While I've enjoyed post-apocalyptic plots in novels and films, I had never really ventured into shorts stories within the genre. I was a little apprehensive when I received this book from LibraryThing.com to review because I wasn't sure if I would enjoy story after story of doomsday scenarios. I was wrong.
These stories are often dark, but have plenty of humor, excitement, and energy. The editor did a fine job of selecting the works to provide sufficient variety while maintaining consistency with the overall themes of the post-apocalyptic genre.
I would say that anyone who enjoys thinking about what life would be like if 'everything just went to hell' would love this collection. In the past, I have had a hard time reviewing collections of short stories because they are often so variable. This book is an exception - the stories are of generally high quality and I liked all but a small handful of the works. Even with the two or three stories that I didn't connect with, I could still find redeeming features within them. If you like this kind of fiction at all, I would say take the plunge and pick this book up.… (mehr)
These stories are often dark, but have plenty of humor, excitement, and energy. The editor did a fine job of selecting the works to provide sufficient variety while maintaining consistency with the overall themes of the post-apocalyptic genre.
I would say that anyone who enjoys thinking about what life would be like if 'everything just went to hell' would love this collection. In the past, I have had a hard time reviewing collections of short stories because they are often so variable. This book is an exception - the stories are of generally high quality and I liked all but a small handful of the works. Even with the two or three stories that I didn't connect with, I could still find redeeming features within them. If you like this kind of fiction at all, I would say take the plunge and pick this book up.… (mehr)
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But overall, the stories are bleak. (Well, what did I expect, they're post-apocalypse stories, right?) There are not a lot of happy or hopeful endings, so that makes them not as enjoyable for me. That's just my taste.
So if you like grim and gritty, futuristic, post-apocalyptic stories, you should love this anthology! If you're a fan of happy endings, you might want to give it a miss. :)… (mehr)