A review by saltandcedar
Selections from Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories by John Joseph Adams, Heather Lindsley, Tobias S. Buckell, Cory Doctorow, Vylar Kaftan, Carrie Vaughn, Genevieve Valentine, Jeremiah Tolbert, Adam-Troy Castro

2.0

It's hard to know what to rate this anthology because there were one or two stories in it I really enjoyed a lot. But for each story I really liked, there was one I hated so much that I didn't finish it or even worse, had to put down because of scenes depicting sexual violence. It happened often enough that I encountered it in this book that I actually googled if rape had become a trope in its own right in dystopian fiction, but I couldn't turn up anything conclusive either way.

Most of the stories I neither loved nor skipped were lukewarm at best and for that reason I have to give this anthology two stars.