The second book I got from Brian Stevenson, after the collection of stories A Collapse of Horses.

I was really hoping for more stories in the same vein as A Collapse of Horses (hoping really for another story to blow me away like the story “Click” from this collection.) Unfortunately, this was not the case. I could say this particular collection is weaker than Horses. 

The strongest story in the collection was “Nameless Citizen”. Not at the same level of “Click”, but a fun, albeit somewhat predictable, dystopian science fiction story with an interesting protagonist and clever set up. 

Many of the stories appear to communicate a deep loathing of humanity. Multiple characters throughout multiple stories are given the chance to save the human race and instead decide it should die.

This collection of stories didn’t impress much.