A review by ceridwenanne
After by Jane Yolen, Garth Nix, Cecil Castellucci, Ellen Datlow, Matthew Kressel, Katherine Langrish, Sarah Rees Brennan, Steven Gould, N.K. Jemisin, Carolyn Dunn, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Beth Revis, Gregory Maguire, Genevieve Valentine, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Ryan, Nalo Hopkinson, Richard Bowes, Carol Emshwiller, Terri Windling, Jeffrey Ford

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3.5

Good collection of YA apocalypse slash dystopia short stories. There were a couple I didn't like, such as "How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @Homeskool.guv." I kinda hate eye dialect, and this is like written eye dialect. I mean, all eye dialect is written, but it's intended to catch the idiosyncracies of the spoken word. Annoying. 

I felt like Nalo Hopkinson's "The Easthound" was a standout, just beautifully constructed with a banger of an ending. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Caitlín R Kiernan is great too, incredibly unsettling while being smooth and bright, which is hard to pull off.