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Tsana Dolichva , Holly Kench: Defying Doomsday (Paperback, 2016, Twelfth Planet Press) 4 stars

Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet. A woman faces …

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 a lot and would recommend is Accessing the Future (all sci-fi).