This is, at best, a mixed bag of "edgy" and "politically incorrect" science fiction stories. The good stories (more on those shortly) are very good or excellent. The rest are either amateurish, hastily written or so blatantly trying to shock that they are unappealing.
I happened on this book while looking for something by Milo Yiannopoulos, someone who, up until three weeks ago, I'd never heard of. Suddenly his name was all over the news feed on my phone, children at a Berkeley set fire to their school rather than let him speak, and Bill Maher had him on his show, prompting another guest to cancel his appearance rather than be in his presence. I was curious about this horrible person who was so dangerous, so repulsive that he couldn't be allowed to speak. I looked up his oeuvre on Amazon, and discovered this book which appears to be the only one credited to Yiannopoulos. It turns out he wrote the introduction. (To finish my brief Milo Yiannopoulos story, I saw him on Bill Maher - he's a lightweight provocateur a la Ann Coulter. Really, how anyone could take him seriously, much less be intimidated or frightened by what he has to say is beyond me.)
Anyway, back to the book. There are some very good to excellent stories here, and I'm looking forward to reading more by some of the authors I discovered. In order of appearance in the book, they are:
"Ray Blank" [pen name], who wrote "A Place for Everyone," a funny twist on the "be careful what you ask for" theme (with a healthy dose of extrapolation into a world under extreme control);
A.M. Freeman, "The Edge of Detachment," a heartbreaking look at selfish parenting;
Pierce Oka, "Imagine," in which he imagines (ha!) a society that takes literally the lyrics and intention of John Lennon's classic paean to Marx's pipe dream;
Brad R. Torgersen, "Hymns of the Mothers," an optimistic take on what might happen in a matriarchy that would've given Octavia Butler pause;
John C. Wright, "By His Cockle Hat and Staff," a very poorly edited yet engrossing exploration of multiple universes; and
Jane Lebak, whose "World Ablaze" was my favorite story in the collection. I've added Ms. Lebak to my queue of writers I'll read (as soon as I work my way through my current stack). This story is a beautifully written piece set in a world where Christianity, and presumably all religion, has been outlawed yet a few brave souls persevere.
There is nothing dangerous about this book, nor should there be anything forbidden. The writers' sentiments clearly do not mesh with the prevailing political correctness, but no one has anything to fear from listening or reading ideas different from their own. Indeed, we should fear a world where anyone's ideas are deemed too "dangerous" to be expressed. Sticks and stones and all that, remember?