Climate Change Fiction anthology that is horribly plausible, deeply frightening and that fills me with guilt about the mess the generation now in school will inherit from us. “Loosed Upon The World” is a collection of twenty-six short stories that imagine our future in a world undergoing dramatic climate change. The message that they have in common is that the next generation will be facing some hard choices, that science may mitigate the effects of climate change but that the way we live today

Unusual anthology of science fiction stories about climate change by international authors. They each focus on different aspects and all offer fascinating perspectives. If you like science fiction and are concerned about climate change, you'll appreciate this book. My favorites of the 26 stories: The Snows of Yesteryear by Jean-Louis TrudelThe Rainy Season by Tobias S. BuckellThe Precedent by Sean McMullenThat Creeping Sensation by Alan Dean FosterEagle by Gregory BenfordThe Day It All Ended by

As an avid reader of climate fiction (cli-fi), I was very much looking forward to the release of Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. I’m pleased to report that this anthology definitely met and exceeded my expectations.This volume brings together an impressive collection of authors with a wide range of writing styles and a variety of takes on the broadly-defined theme. As with almost any anthology, there are hits and misses. There were a few stories I’d read before, one...

Environmental Doom and gloom on an unending scale make this anthology’s theme somewhat redundant yet creative. Each story has a different environmental threat. However, they are uneven, some few being well-written while others are barely mediocre. The scope is broad but being saturated in one after another, leaves one feeing helpless, distressed and depressed.

An anthology that is relevant, scary, and unfortunately, in some cases, provides portraits of very possible scenarios of how our children’s children may be living. While this large collection will not persuade anyone to not drive over the bridge, it will further motivate those of us who follow the science. My analogy of driving over the bridge came from discussion of climate change (or, as Margaret Atwood calls it, “The Everything Change”) with a friend. He told me that any time a climate change...

This is an excellent collection, depressing, but excellent.

As with so many anthologies, this was very much a mixed bag. I think it particularly suffered because the stories within were all reprints, so there was very little cohesion between them. It was obvious when a story had been written for a non-climate-focused project, because the authors felt the need to explain to us how, exactly, climate change was bad- not exactly necessary in the context of this anthology, because it is safe to assume that anyone who has picked up something described as an an...

Overall pretty mediocre. That said, there are a few very strong standout stories such as "racing the tide" and "hot sky". "the precedent" was utterly disturbing and congratulations to the author for that smack in the face! "The Netherlands lives with water" also stood out. But all in all this is a mediocre collection and speaks to the larger challenge of writing good climate fiction.

Overall, this was good. Of course some stories i liked more than others, my favorites being Truth + Consequences by Kim Stanley Robinson ( this was small bits from his series that starts with 40 days of rain, i definitely want to read more from him), and The precedent by Sean McMullen. I bought this because I love disaster movies and this definitely delivered that. I really appreciated the amount of science in these stories as well.

This was both the easiest and most difficult anthology to read; wonderfully edited exploration of our emerging climate crisis. Great writers assigned a very difficult and sad task and at the end of the onslaught of dystopic postulations - I'm still rooting for the humans.

This book is a collection of extremely readable, extremely compelling stories that imagine the immediate future and the possible effects of climate change on the world and its inhabitants. I kind of think that this anthology, or something like it, should be required reading for everyone on the planet. The best speculative fiction challenges us to escape the fog of denial. I'm not talking about Denial, as in Climate Change Denial, I'm talking about the everyday garden-variety denial that lets us

Anthologies are typically a collection of good material surrounded by weaker brethren; this one is no different. Its better works have one thing in common: they are more than just a tale of climate catastrophe. Some of my favorites: "The Netherlands Lives With Water," for its living, believable characters, and "Shooting the Apocalypse," for capturing the spirit of the those that will survie in the bone-dry Southwest US.

This collection starts out strong with Shooting The Apocalypse by Paola Bacigalupi and kept up the pace throughout. I immediately started reading this book after purchasing it,and over four hours later I reluctantly had to tear myself away.I highly recommend this anthology to any fan of the post-apocalyptic genre.

This was a great read. Some of the stories did drag a bit, but for the most part the short stories were full of intrigue. This anthology features many prominent fiction writers, but in my opinion the stories by the lesser known authors were remarkable as well. Reading anthologies like this one is a great way to find out about authors writing this type of speculative fiction. I have read Wastelands, another anthology edited by John Joseph Adams; Wastelands is less focused on climate-related "the

I was sceptical about if I would enjoy this book or not. It sounded good on paper, but I wondered about the execution. I needn’t have worried! A really brilliant and eclectic (in a good way) mix of stories focusing on the climate and the myriad of conditions it could theoretically be put under. Whilst you could argue that it is speculative fiction, the majority, if not all the stories have an essence of realism to them. It really isn’t that much of s leap to get to several of the situations tha...

This collection did ideas right. Authors had a lot of great ideas. Authors had, however, terrible execution. I read about characters I didn't care for. I read rushed or broken arcs and plots. I read paragraphs that somehow made it through the copy editor despite grammatical and structural problems. The last hundred pages, combined with "The Eight Wonder" were the best pieces in the collection. But they why—why for God's sake—would you leave the best for last? I had to trawl my body through this

"The Netherlands Lives With Water," by Jim Shepard (2009): 7.25 - An unfortunate perfect storm of mundanity: the mainstream author doing genre who, as usual, skips over the interesting shit genre qua genre can do, and also just so happens to not do any of the nice things litfic can do in the process. The sexuality of the marriage reads like the worst of genre's attempt at Cool Directness; the marital and maternal problems are largely disconnected from the climatic drama; and the attempts at lit...

"The rich fled the places where the sun was too bright and the rain was too rare, and when the places they fled to dried up in turn, the rich fled farther, looking for some promised land that had managed to remain pristine while they were busy wrecking the world the rest of us had to live in."Loosed Upon the World is a finely crafted collection of 26 short cli-fi/sci-fi stories about the effects of climate change told by some of my favorites (Seanan McGuire & Margaret Atwood!)After watching a vi...

...Although there are some stories in this anthology that I didn't really do much for me, and one - That Creeping Sensation (2011) by Alan Dean Foster - that left me wondering how on earth the author managed to sell that heap of nonsense, most of the stories were at the very least entertaining. A few reached into the excellent category. Adams managed to gather a diverse set of stories and as such, the anthology is likely to keep most readers on board until the last pages. Both Bacigalupi in the

An impressive collection of fiction about one of the greatest crisis facing the world today: climate change. Each story is thought provoking and disturbing. It took me longer than I thought to read this because I had to set it down between stories...to catch my breath. Very intense. My favorite stories are: -The Myth of Rain, by Seanan McGuire-A Hundred Hundred Daisies, by Nancy Kress-The Day it All Ended, by Charlie Jane Anders-Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet, by Margaret Atwood