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Things we didn't see coming

"Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after anoth...

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Main Author: Amsterdam, Steven K.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Disasters > Fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
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Summary:"Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another"--Jacket.
Physical Description:199 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780307378507
0307378500
Author Notes:Steven Amsterdam was born on January 31, 1966 in Manhattan, New York. He has edited travel guides and designed book jackets. He is the author of What the Family Needed. His book, Things We Didn't See Coming, won The Age Book of the Year Award, among other honors. He is also a nurse, specializing in psychiatric and palliative care.

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