{"id":462,"date":"2018-02-23T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/?p=462"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:55:48","slug":"book-review-defying-doomsday-ed-tsana-dolichva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/2018\/02\/23\/book-review-defying-doomsday-ed-tsana-dolichva\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Defying Doomsday, ed. Tsana Dolichva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463\" style=\"width:150px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-768x1228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-1280x2048.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-38x60.jpg 38w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday-600x960.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/defying-doomsday.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Defying Doomsday<\/em> is a riveting collection of short stories of individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses surviving the apocalypse, the premise for the collection being that it\u2019s not always the \u2018fittest\u2019 that survive \u2013 it\u2019s about being determined, persistent and inventive.<br>The apocalypses vary, as do the abilities of the individuals: a fourteen year blind girl survives for months in a lab by the ocean after a plague wipes out everyone she knows; a Deaf boy and his deadly companion raid abandoned houses for precious batteries and medication, until a new member divides their team; three sisters, two with cystic fibrosis, live in hope on their family farm after a plague has burnt through the country; a woman without footsteps can sneak into a deadly nest and gather precious materials to keep her family alive; a man tries to keep his perceptions and proportions in check as he falls in love in a fading world; and a woman floating in space is the only person who can communicate with the aliens attacking earth. The first few pages of each story are a barrage of information and it often takes a re-read or two to understand exactly what\u2019s happening and to whom, but it\u2019s always worth persevering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection of phenomenal stories should be on absolutely everyone\u2019s reading list: I can\u2019t recommend it highly enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defying Doomsday is a riveting collection of short stories of individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses surviving the apocalypse, the premise for the collection being &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[441,443,444,442,67,70,338,440,439],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-holly-kench","tag-john-chu","tag-rivqa-rafael","tag-seanan-mcguire","tag-short-stories","tag-speculative-fiction","tag-tansy-rayner-roberts","tag-tsana-dolichva","tag-twelfth-planet-press","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}