TY - BOOK AU - Amsterdam,Steven TI - Things we didn't see coming SN - 0307473600 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books KW - Disasters KW - Fiction KW - Science fiction KW - gsafd KW - Short stories KW - Dystopias N1 - What we know now -- The theft that got me here -- Dry land -- Cake walk -- Uses for vinegar -- The forest for the trees -- Predisposed -- The profit motive -- Best medicine N2 - "Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another"--Cover ER -