Defying Doomsday

Paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-922101-40-2

(2 reviews)

Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet. A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family. New friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors. A man seeks love in a fading world.

How would you survive the apocalypse?

Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive – it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost.

In stories of fear, hope and survival, this anthology gives new perspectives on the end of the world, from authors Corinne Duyvis, Janet Edwards, Seanan McGuire, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Stephanie Gunn, Elinor Caiman Sands, Rivqa Rafael, Bogi Takács, John Chu, Maree Kimberley, Octavia Cade, Lauren E Mitchell, Thoraiya Dyer, Samantha Rich, and K L Evangelista.

2 editions

Erin reviewed Defying Doomsday by Tsana Dolichva

Review of 'Defying Doomsday' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I got to about 75% before calling it quits on this one. I so appreciate the goal here which is why I give it 3 stars, but my experience was more like 2 stars.

Much of this collection focused on teens which made it feel YA whether or not it was intended that way, and I do not enjoy YA. Wish I had realized that before I started. I found most of the stories mediocre or worse, but I’m a tough sell on short stories to start with.

I want to highlight a couple I enjoyed a lot:
To Take into the Air My Quiet Breath by Stephanie Gunn
Selected Afterimages of the Fading by John Chu

Selected Afterimages especially did a fantastic job of dropping me into something surreal and making it work, doing something interesting with it.

Another collection focused on characters with disabilities that I did enjoy …

I got to about 75% before calling it quits on this one. I so appreciate the goal here which is why I give it 3 stars, but my experience was more like 2 stars.

Much of this collection focused on teens which made it feel YA whether or not it was intended that way, and I do not enjoy YA. Wish I had realized that before I started. I found most of the stories mediocre or worse, but I’m a tough sell on short stories to start with.

I want to highlight a couple I enjoyed a lot:
To Take into the Air My Quiet Breath by Stephanie Gunn
Selected Afterimages of the Fading by John Chu

Selected Afterimages especially did a fantastic job of dropping me into something surreal and making it work, doing something interesting with it.

Another collection focused on characters with disabilities that I did enjoy a lot and would recommend is Accessing the Future (all sci-fi).

AnnaRaven

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Jan. 4, 2022

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