Things We Didn't See Coming

from TheDivineOomba

A wonderful book of a post apocalyptic future, redemption, and growth. It follows the story of a young boy on New Years Eve in the year 2000. In short story form, you see this boy as a rebellious teenager as the world starts to fall. As he grows up, he survives in a world that is slowly going cra...

from snarkhunt

A series of short stories set as a man grows older in a world where civilization just fell apart - perhaps because Y2K had real impact there. There are no huge climaxes, this is a story told from the sidelines of great events. The protagonist isn't the hero, isn't making great changes in the worl...

from BlackSheepDances

This collection of short stories was released in February and is definitely going to get some big press. The author, Steven Amsterdam, is a native New Yorker who moved to Australia in 2003. He is youngish and it comes through in the feel of these stories: one unlike any others I can remember. I'v...

from katlb82

Things We Didn't See Coming is the story of one young boy, 9 years old on the eve of the millennium, and his subsequent journey through a world irrevocably changed by Y2K. As the world falls slowly apart and suffers through drought, flood, fire and disease, he teeters on the fence of petty crime ...

from mckall08

I liked this post-apocalyptic series of linked short stories. It has elements of "The Road" without the grim outlook. It begins quietly enough with a teenage son's description of his fathers doomsday paranoia before Y2K. The remaining stories edge along the timeline of the son's struggle in a soc...