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This book is a collection of extremely readable, extremely compelling stories that imagine the immediate future and the possible effects of climate change on the world and its inhabitants. I kind of think that this anthology, or something like it, should be required reading for everyone on the planet. The best speculative fiction challenges us to escape the fog of denial. I'm not talking about Denial, as in Climate Change Denial, I'm talking about the everyday garden-variety denial that lets us avoid going to the doctor to have them check out that new mole, because if it is skin cancer we'd rather not know about it. These stories make you think about the future, and the possible consequences of our current, business as usual path. But not by preaching at you: by making you feel. By creating characters and situations you empathize with. You can picture yourself faced with these same challenges and dilemmas. And you wonder, you have to wonder, what you would (will?) do in similar situations.

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2.0

for school

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4.0

Good collection of short stories, all featuring climate change as a theme. I was actually surprised, I had only read one of the stories before (although two others were based on stories I had read).

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5.0

sobering. particularly "the precedence". highly recommended

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4.0

This is an excellent, well-written anthology of climate fiction. I was, however, hoping for some more positive, hopeful stories than I found - the impulse to show the worst that can happen is strong, and showing a crisis averted is harder than showing destruction.

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hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Some stories offered hope for the future. Some stories showed us the more things change, the more they stay the same. Some stories flipped the script. Overall There were a handful that I'll be referring to in the future, but they all made me think, and for that I'm grateful to have read this collection.

I'd recommend it as a good starting point for anyone else looking for climate fiction, particularly if they didn't want to commit into a full length novel.

Shooting the Apocalypse by Paolo Bacigalupi: 4.25
The Myth of Rain by Seanan McGuire: 2.75
Outer Rims by Toiya Kristen Finley: 3
Kheldyu by Karl Schroeder: 4.25
The Snows of Yesteryear by Jean-Louis Trudel: 3.5
The Rainy Season by Tobias S. Buckell: 2.5
A Hundred Hundred Daisies by Nancy Kress: 3
The Netherlands Lives with Water by Jim Shepard: 2.75
The Precedent by Sean McMullen: 4
Hot Sky by Robert Silverburg: 4
That Creeping Sensation by Alan Dean Foster: 3.25
Truth and Consequences by Kim Stanley Robinson: 3.25
Entanglement by Vandana Singh: 3.5
Staying Afloat by Angela Penrose: 3.5
Eighth Wonder by Chris Bachelder: 3.5
Eagle by Gergory Benford: 3.25
Outliers by Nicole Feldringer: 3.5
Quiet Town by Jason Gurley: 3
The Day It All Ended by Charlie Jane Anders: 4
The Smog Society by Chen Qiufan: 4.25
Racing the Tide by Craig DeLancy: 4
Mutant Stag at Horn Creek by Sarah K. Castle: 4
Hot Rods by Cat Sparks: 2.5
The Tamarisk Hunter by Paolo Bacigalupi: 3.25
Mitigation by Tobias S. Buckell & Karl Shroeder: 4
Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet by Margaret Atwood: 4.25

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