RaveReadings (AU)These nine stories are startling. They are dark, spiky, sad and imbued at times with a dark humour. They explore class, power and morality in near-future dystopias (and to be frank, some of them are current dystopias). As a reader you are never comfortable, but you are kind of complicit ... Each story, to some degree, exposes human pettiness and weakness, highlighting power imbalances and the fragility of our ecosystem.