I was totally braced for totally grim contemporary short fiction about how the world is ending, but more importantly middle-class people are really sad. And to some extent it was that, but I thought it took itself seriously as a science fiction and fantasy collection more than it cared about suburban ennui.

A woman argues with the man programming her virtual reality simulation. A man figures out how to turn back time, but to what end? A teen girl grows wings, a doll is haunted, June beetles might have swarm sentience, everyone in the world simultaneously loses their sense of taste. Each story is about people, and how it affects them, the social consequences around the changes, technology and magic. It's very well thought out, and while it does tend a little bit towards melancholy, it wasn't totally bleak (given how much of it's about climate change). Also, there's one lesbian kink story in the middle (I think probably part of that Kink anthology that everyone hated), which was scorching hot.

I liked the audiobook's use of of different narrators the stories, especially the first story which was entirely dialogue being done as a two-handed audio play.