A review by cameliarose
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook

3.0

Man V. Nature is a collection of 12 short stories. It is very hard to rate a collection that ranges from fantastic to total disappointment. These three are the best in the collection: The Way the End of Days Should Be, Man V. Nature, and The Not-Needed Forest, all speculative fictions set in the end of our time, piercing, shocking, and brutal. The last one reminds me of Lord of the Flies. Girl On Gill is a surreal and disturbing little story.

I find the longest story, Meteorologist Dave Santana, is a big disappointment, so is The Mast Year. A Wanted Man is totally pointless.