| Author | Steven Amsterdam |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Sleepers Publishing |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 174 pp. |
| Awards | 2009 The Age Book of the Year Award – Fiction, winner |
| ISBN | 9781740667012 |
Things We Didn't See Coming is a 2009 short story collection by the Australian author Steven Amsterdam originally published by Sleepers Publishing. [1]
It was the winner of the 2009 The Age Book of the Year Award – Fiction. [2]
The collection comprises nine inter-connected stories which follow one man over a period of three decades. [3]
Writing in Australian Book Review Rebecca Starford noted that "Amsterdam takes the well-worn premise of the post-millennial apocalypse and reworks it, creating a dystopia of catastrophic climate change, drug addiction, viral epidemics, alternative relationships and bureaucratic wrangling. It is a familiar world." She concluded that the collection is the "perfect combination of uncanny landscapes, existential anxiety and social critique." [4]
After the collection's initial publication by Sleepers Publishing in Australia in 2009, [1] it was republished as follows:
It was also translated into Dutch in 2010, and French in 2012. [3]