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Tomorrow
You've read the predictions of people like Nostradamus and Mother Shipton. And some believed the Mayan Calendar predicted the end of the world in 2012. Yet here we still are...
But what if, tomorrow, we woke up to a world with no electricity, no gas, no telephone? What if there were no shops or hospitals? What if you had to gather food and water? What if the old world, the world we know and take for granted, was gone forever and in its place is a new world where humanity must learn new skills to survive.
Tomorrow, anything could happen!
Would you survive?
Fifteen apocalyptic short stories explore the possibility of plagues, biohazards, natural disasters and human error. The walking dead, rogue plant life, self-aware technology and
intergalactic travel will show the effects these disasters could have on us and our world.
But what if, tomorrow, we woke up to a world with no electricity, no gas, no telephone? What if there were no shops or hospitals? What if you had to gather food and water? What if the old world, the world we know and take for granted, was gone forever and in its place is a new world where humanity must learn new skills to survive.
Tomorrow, anything could happen!
Would you survive?
Fifteen apocalyptic short stories explore the possibility of plagues, biohazards, natural disasters and human error. The walking dead, rogue plant life, self-aware technology and
intergalactic travel will show the effects these disasters could have on us and our world.
256 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2013
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Karen Henderson
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June 21, 2015
I received a free copy of this book in return for a review, via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.
Her bat connected on the first swing, crumpling the bug's body in a splatter of pus and blood. She stared at the thing. This was the first time she'd taken a good look. the body was small and feathered, hummingbird-like, but the tail was long and thin and ended in a bob sporting a serrated stinger. The head she wasn't sure about, but it was a bony version of a bird, only with a coiled proboscis instead of a beak.
She wretched, at once glad she hadn't eaten lately and doubly that she retained enough sanity to react at all.
The thing was an abomination. How did it even know how to fly? And how did those dogs on campus sprout tentacles from their mouths and turn on their owners? But they did just the same. Just like all the affected animals and plants. As if something deep in their genetic code had been coiled and waiting to pounce.
There is plenty of variety in this themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories. Some of the apocalypses are caused by man, either deliberately by setting off an EMP weapon, accidentally when a radiation leak leaves San Francisco smothered by out of control plant growth, or due to the hubris of scientists when nanobots or a cure for Alzheimers don't behave as expected. The majority are science fiction, and some are horror. There are several very different zombie outbreaks, including a disease that leaves the dead as quiet zombies which follow people around wthout attacking. There is also one fantasy story, set in Paris after time has stopped, leaving only children between the ages of seven and fourteen alive and forever young, while the rest of the population have become a dangerous type of ghost.
My favourite story is "The Dew of Heaven Like Ashes", a story in which civilisation has fallen after plants and animals suddenly turn into savage monsters (so that a head of maize can killl and eat a bird that lands on it). This is one of the stories in which the cause of the apocalypse is never explained, and I like that. If civilisation collapsed that quickly, you might not know the cause, and even if someone did know, they might not have time to get the news out before the radio and television stations went off the air. I also like the way Bree can make her way across the country armed only with a baseball bat to protect herself from swarms of monstrous insects. I just hope she doesn't have to go through cougar or bear country!
The other stories which made it into my top three are "Cast Upon the Water" (apocalypse by flood) and "Here I Walk" (apocalypse by EMP).
Her bat connected on the first swing, crumpling the bug's body in a splatter of pus and blood. She stared at the thing. This was the first time she'd taken a good look. the body was small and feathered, hummingbird-like, but the tail was long and thin and ended in a bob sporting a serrated stinger. The head she wasn't sure about, but it was a bony version of a bird, only with a coiled proboscis instead of a beak.
She wretched, at once glad she hadn't eaten lately and doubly that she retained enough sanity to react at all.
The thing was an abomination. How did it even know how to fly? And how did those dogs on campus sprout tentacles from their mouths and turn on their owners? But they did just the same. Just like all the affected animals and plants. As if something deep in their genetic code had been coiled and waiting to pounce.
There is plenty of variety in this themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories. Some of the apocalypses are caused by man, either deliberately by setting off an EMP weapon, accidentally when a radiation leak leaves San Francisco smothered by out of control plant growth, or due to the hubris of scientists when nanobots or a cure for Alzheimers don't behave as expected. The majority are science fiction, and some are horror. There are several very different zombie outbreaks, including a disease that leaves the dead as quiet zombies which follow people around wthout attacking. There is also one fantasy story, set in Paris after time has stopped, leaving only children between the ages of seven and fourteen alive and forever young, while the rest of the population have become a dangerous type of ghost.
My favourite story is "The Dew of Heaven Like Ashes", a story in which civilisation has fallen after plants and animals suddenly turn into savage monsters (so that a head of maize can killl and eat a bird that lands on it). This is one of the stories in which the cause of the apocalypse is never explained, and I like that. If civilisation collapsed that quickly, you might not know the cause, and even if someone did know, they might not have time to get the news out before the radio and television stations went off the air. I also like the way Bree can make her way across the country armed only with a baseball bat to protect herself from swarms of monstrous insects. I just hope she doesn't have to go through cougar or bear country!
The other stories which made it into my top three are "Cast Upon the Water" (apocalypse by flood) and "Here I Walk" (apocalypse by EMP).
July 1, 2013
Plenty of cool ideas, but not a lot of good execution with regards to storytelling. There were about five excellent stories:
The Long Wait by Tim Jeffreys
Here I Walk by Joshua S. Hill
The Dew Of Heaven, Like Ashes by William R. D. Wood
The Neon Consciousness by Reece A. A. Barnard
Beyond The Nameless City by Aric Sundquist
For me, this was an anthology of what could have been. The other ten stories just needed that little bit extra to really grab my interest.
The Long Wait by Tim Jeffreys
Here I Walk by Joshua S. Hill
The Dew Of Heaven, Like Ashes by William R. D. Wood
The Neon Consciousness by Reece A. A. Barnard
Beyond The Nameless City by Aric Sundquist
For me, this was an anthology of what could have been. The other ten stories just needed that little bit extra to really grab my interest.
August 21, 2013
I received an ARC of Tomorrow courtesy of LibraryThing. Tomorrow is an anthology of apocolyptic stories. Through this experience I've learned that I'm really not much for short stories because I want a lot more background information about each story that I don't tend to get. Not to mention I want to see where the story continues once I get to the end. Several stories have a strange terminology that's hard to catch onto in the short amount of time I get to share in the experience, which is a little frustrating. However, there are a few stories I would give a thumbs up to:
The Long Wait - basically a father sets up a sort of bomb shelter to protect his family from the decaying world, and he comes back for them in 2 years to rescue them..only to find them quite different from how he left them. Very haunting.
Programme Delete - technology is now available to "program" your child to have certain attributes through the use of an Inteler-Vate Chip. This causes a divide between the "Vaters" and the "Vater Haters," from which begins a witch hunt of the Vaters.
Beyond The Nameless City - another zombie story, however these zombies explode and disperse spores into the air which is how they spread their condition. The story follows one survivor and his companion, only to realize at the end of the story that he has been imagining her the entire time.
Overall, there were some hits and misses, but I enjoyed several stories and I still find myself thinking about them and wondering how their adventures played out.
The Long Wait - basically a father sets up a sort of bomb shelter to protect his family from the decaying world, and he comes back for them in 2 years to rescue them..only to find them quite different from how he left them. Very haunting.
Programme Delete - technology is now available to "program" your child to have certain attributes through the use of an Inteler-Vate Chip. This causes a divide between the "Vaters" and the "Vater Haters," from which begins a witch hunt of the Vaters.
Beyond The Nameless City - another zombie story, however these zombies explode and disperse spores into the air which is how they spread their condition. The story follows one survivor and his companion, only to realize at the end of the story that he has been imagining her the entire time.
Overall, there were some hits and misses, but I enjoyed several stories and I still find myself thinking about them and wondering how their adventures played out.
December 23, 2013
My feelings about this book are a bit complicated. I'm giving it four stars because the stories are very good--there's a great variety in the kinds of calamities that have befallen mankind, and they're very imaginative and intriguing. Strong characters populate the stories. Everyone has a lot at stake. Each story makes you want to read it straight through to the end.
But overall, the stories are bleak. (Well, what did I expect, they're post-apocalypse stories, right?) There are not a lot of happy or hopeful endings, so that makes them not as enjoyable for me. That's just my taste.
So if you like grim and gritty, futuristic, post-apocalyptic stories, you should love this anthology! If you're a fan of happy endings, you might want to give it a miss. :)
But overall, the stories are bleak. (Well, what did I expect, they're post-apocalypse stories, right?) There are not a lot of happy or hopeful endings, so that makes them not as enjoyable for me. That's just my taste.
So if you like grim and gritty, futuristic, post-apocalyptic stories, you should love this anthology! If you're a fan of happy endings, you might want to give it a miss. :)
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