Reviews

Drowned Worlds by Lavie Tidhar, Jonathan Strahan, Paul McAuley, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, James Morrow, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Jeffrey Ford, Kim Stanley Robinson

bobatchearsdotorg's review

5.0

Get ready ...

For these drowned worlds we are being led towards. Can you imagine adapting as any in these stories has? If not, what do you plan to do to avoid that inevitability? Write your own story!

erichart's review

5.0

Climate change deniers should read this.

hammard's review

3.0

This a competent but frustratingly unremarkable theme collection. Many other collections of short stories around a theme are extremely uneven with some great fiction and others that are very pedestrian or fail to engage properly with the central idea. This goes the opposite way, where a lot of great authors engage in their own very specific way about "drowned worlds".
And yet, it is no more than I imagined. Each work was good and yet felt like something I had read many times before.
So whilst not something I will not regret reading I don't think any individual piece will stick with me much beyond a few days.