Perfect for any distopia fan, this eclectic collection of end-of-the-world stories is fascinating and at times, terrifying. A glimpse of potential futures, horrific political landscapes and natural disasters will satisfy any short story lover.

I wish I could give this a higher rating, because some of the stories were very interesting. I know the choice to go with shorter stories was deliberate, but some of them were so short I couldn't really figure out what was going on. The Kindle formatting wasn't great, either; one story consisted entirely of text messages, which was an interesting format, but there was nothing to identify which person was which, and the last line changes meaning considerably depending on which character it was. I hope in the final version they'll be colour coded, or something else to make it obvious.

Some interesting stories, but overshadowed by the bad points, sadly.

I received a free ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for the chance to read it.

A wide variety of styles on display in this well put together book. Some of them work perfectly at this length; some would make great full length stories, and some are so short I'd barely got to grips with them before I was on to the next. As in all anthologies, the quality varies, but none are less than good and most are very good. Americans might not be too happy with several of them, though.

An interesting read, leaves me with plenty to think about.

Receiving an ARC did not affect my review in any way.

When you love dystopian fiction it’s tough to resist a book that literally welcomes you to it. But then again maybe it would have been smart to exercise some caution…because this isn’t quite the sort of dystopia I enjoy. For one thing it’s set predominantly in near present or immediate future. For another it’s all one note, one theme…a nightmarish interpretation of the current US politics. And I’m not saying the world doesn’t need to be warned or cautioned of frightened about the situation. I’m not saying the future isn’t looking scary and bleak. I’m just saying that maybe a 400 page anthology (ok, not any, this particular one) on it was in a way an overkill. Scenario after a nightmarish scenario it spins distinctly plausible realities into existence and the thing is...it isn’t necessary. Reading the news these days is enough. Any functional brain with any degree of imagination can already take you there. I always thought that fiction should do more, fiction should imagine possibilities in a way you can’t or don’t, using allegories and metaphors and clever speculative constructs…and this book has nearly none of it. It just plows on with all the subtlety of a freight train into every easily predictable possibility of a near totalitarian dictatorship. It’s alarmists reading news and producing worst case scenarios. It may be prove to be presciently accurate, it’s certainly timely, but what is it meant to do. It isn’t that entertaining as a book, monotone as it is, and I don’t believe it’ll suddenly charge passive society into streaming into thinking and (gasp) voting intelligently any time soon. So it just seemed like a bunch of authors exorcising their demons by creating what republicans (although I can’t imagine any republican reading this one) might refer to as liberal propaganda. Think of any dystopian book of worth that has withstood the test of time and it probably does feature all those allegories and metaphors and clever speculative constructs this book barely ever tries for. These dystopias, sincere as well intentioned as they may be, don’t get there. At best they coast on a sort of recognition/awareness of a sh*tty situation and subsequent and oh so appropriate depression. If you were at a bar trying to drink yourself into oblivion, they’d match you pint for pint and probably actually pass out before you. Entertainment value alone won’t sell it to classic dystopia fans. Some known names, mostly unknown ones. Read it if your friends don’t care for your ideas and aren’t as disgusted and terrified by modern politics as much as they really should be. Thanks Netgalley.

The blurb on NetGalley seems to imply what this is, and the intro itself says it explicitly. These are not generic dystopia stories, nor are they meant to extrapolate current trends in general to their dystopic ends. These short (very short) stories are simply meant to attack President Trump for his approach to the issues before him. They are hastily written, slapped together fast enough to get them to market while the topics were current. There was little thought to their content and assembly beyond that, just grab any writer claiming to write SF who hates Trump and get him/her to dash something off that can be used to feed off of the emotions of the left-leaning public. They are so obviously propaganda that I wonder if they should fall under Political Fiction rather than SF.

The intro says the book will make some readers mad but I'm not mad. I just don't want to waste me time reading "stories" that really aren't. I think dystopias peaked w/ the YA fad and I doubt they can be made relevant again any time soon.

1 star for trying to profit off of this.