![]() Rising waters caused by climate change have divided the world into rich enclaves on high ground and poorer periodically flooded areas. This story deals a lot with mental health after an apocalyptic event, including suicide. Survivors of a disaster in Australia decide that they are going to celebrate a traditional Christmas no matter how hard that might be. What should she do? This is a great exploration of moral grey areas.Īll the World in Seafoam Green by Lauren RingĪn autistic seashell painter meets a fellow survivor from another colony and paints her a portrait of the wife she lost. She knows that he is going to try to take over. ![]() Now a man who has set up a colony based on a strict patriarchial structure and no technology wants to move his group to her settlement. She has been leading her colony of fellow survivors in England. I loved this story of a woman who survived a human mass extinction that happened after aliens came. These stories show what could be done if people considered accessibility in design. I especially enjoyed descriptions of towns built specifically to incorporate ramps or quiet areas or whatever people think of to accommodate their needs. Specially this collection focuses on how disabled and chronically ill people might survive and rebuild their worlds. They show people rising up out of the disaster and thriving. Each of the stories in this collection take place after a catastrophe but each of them is hopeful. That's why when I saw this anthology mentioned on Twitter I jumped on it. What I want to read is stories with hope. For all I know I may be living that right now. ![]() ![]() I don't need to read about society crumbling and violence and mayhem rising in the aftermath. Because Rebuilding Tomorrow has such stellar authors that I expect that they have crafted good stories set in that type of environment.Īfter the past few years of protests against encroaching fascism and state sponsored police violence on top of an actual real life pandemic, I've lost any interest in reading dystopian fiction. I will reassure you, though… they are real people, with hopes and dreams, and their disabilities and illnesses are not the only features of those characters on display.Ībout my only complaint about this book? I wish it was longer I wish there were more stories I wish it didn't have to end! It also makes me very interested in reading Defying Doomsday, even though I am not a huge fan of apocalypse fiction. This book languished on my mountainous to-read list for months, so by the time I started it, I had forgotten about this aim of the book, and it was most of the way through the book when I remarked to myself how many characters in the stories had conditions. I also know that many of these writers were writing about what they know, rather than simply including something that would make their work more marketable. That's probably because I've seen far more token inclusion. I will admit that I was… unsure what to expect from this aspect. There was other inclusion, too, around disability and chronic illness. As somebody who is neither, I appreciated that, too. I was also glad to see that it was inclusive: unlike many other stories elsewhere, this book's stories weren't centered only around heterosexual men. Survival is not life, only a necessary prerequisite to it. Too often, spec fic either is working to avoid the disaster or simply surviving after it. I was mostly pleased to read stories about recovering and moving on from disaster. One of the things I really liked about this was that it really had multiple aims.
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