Steven Amsterdam is the author of “Things We Didn’t See Coming” (Pantheon), a linked collection of short stories.
The collection won the the 2009 Book of the Year award from The Age.
Time Out New York called it “disturbing and deeply smart … darkly comic and full of surprises.”
The (Raleigh) News and Observer raved that ”the voice in these interconnected stories is thoughtful, intelligent, savvy but not hard-boiled … Amsterdam has written a literary novel, in the form of a collection of stories about a post-apocalyptic future, that deals with how, and why, people survive the most extreme traumas. It is full of horror and hope and compels you to think. ”
And Harper’s called it “Funny, scary, and described with a flair for the telling detail. … This is not a nerdy fantasy of some undiscovered galaxy. Steven Amsterdam reads the newspapers.”
Visit him online at www.stevenamsterdam.com.
