I’ve been listening to Wastelands & Wastelands 2–collections of post-apocalyptic short stories. Depressing, but good. One cool thing w/ short stories is that you can move on if one doesn’t resonate. I’ve only done that once so far.
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It was in the first volume—the one about the Rapture. I felt like I was listening to a flakey evangelical preacher’s sermon. The Orson Scott Card story was set in an LDS setting, but it was just a story set in an LDS setting, which was interesting partly because some stuff was new to me.
I just got through the OSC story in the second volume, and it was quite creepy—the bad kind of creepy. I skipped over an apocalypse quiz that might have done better on paper. But again, one advantage of short story anthologies is that when a story doesn’t work, you can skip to the next one.
It has some good stories, including ones about a guy trying to game the water scarcity system, a family trying to survive for years in an underground bunker, keeping a containment system working for decades to the region from blowing up, & a guy who set up a cafe on I95 just to help folks out.
