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A review by roadtripreader
Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, Andy Weir
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
(Read the short stories but selected the audible to add to my challenge so I dont waste book tracking space.)
I found my way to this collection of short stories through Randomizer by Andy Weir. Mainly because he was part of a scifi challenge I had set up for myself and I hadn't read anything by him before. So a short story seemed fitting. I loved the story - but then I discovered there was a whole collection of gems and let me tell you something for nothing: If Randomizer is the lower end of poignant short stories well this collection is worth way more than the paper it's printed on.
My Top 3
(which is really not fair seeing as all these stories struck a cord and made me think and made me google and fall headfirst into rabbit holes of quantum physics and then spiralled all the way to my nonfiction bookshelf and finally just finding more open ended questions that made me go ... hhhmm)
I found my way to this collection of short stories through Randomizer by Andy Weir. Mainly because he was part of a scifi challenge I had set up for myself and I hadn't read anything by him before. So a short story seemed fitting. I loved the story - but then I discovered there was a whole collection of gems and let me tell you something for nothing: If Randomizer is the lower end of poignant short stories well this collection is worth way more than the paper it's printed on.
My Top 3
(which is really not fair seeing as all these stories struck a cord and made me think and made me google and fall headfirst into rabbit holes of quantum physics and then spiralled all the way to my nonfiction bookshelf and finally just finding more open ended questions that made me go ... hhhmm)
- Ark was delicate, tragic and hopeful. The idea that there could be something...more after the apocalypse is a modicum of hope that some are afraid to feel. Hope in the face of the end.
- Now more than ever I want to crack open the spine of Book 1 in The Broken Earth trilogy - N.K Jemisin, they hype is accurate. Emergency Skin was a punch to the senses - wake up and smell what's been hidden from you.
- Randomizer had me wondering if such a hack already exists and I'm pretty sure we're either a hare's breath away from it or it's in testing stages.
My nerd soul met with my geek spirit and together we have thoroughly reveled in this collection.