The duds are starting to outweigh the good stories, so now that I’ve read the ones by the authors I already cared about I don’t feel particularly motivated to finish this collection. There were some interesting ideas in here, and I like the overall concept of pulling together different perspectives on a post-apocalyptic world, but it felt like most of these stories were in a competition to make up the most incomprehensible futuristic-sounding words and make their plots as opaque as possible, and it’s getting old. I liked Emily St. John Mandel’s story “Mr. Thursday” because I could see how it birthed the idea for her novel Sea of Tranquility, and “Reminded” and “As Good As New” were also standouts.