The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

by Veronica Roth

From the best-selling author of Divergent and Carve the Mark comes a stunning collection of futuristic short stories. Illustrated throughout with striking black-and-white illustrations.

Within this masterful collection, NO WORLD IS LIKE THE OTHER.

Full of friendship and revenge, each story and setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, in these futuristic lands, the people must still confront deeply human emotions and dilemmas.

Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and immerses readers into six short stories that feel startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful.

With two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for everyone.

• ISBN10: 0062796542
• ISBN13: 9780062796547
• Publish Date: 1 October 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[Nessa Luna]

I enjoyed most of the stories, but I didn't really like the two Carve the Mark stories too much. I didn't like that duology so yeah I wished there had been either two stories not related to any of Veronica's other series or that they had just been left out, but that's just me. My favourite story was Vim and Vigor with Hearken as a close second). I did really love the art that was in this book!

[shannonmiz]

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight
4.5*

I enjoyed this short story collection so much that I might be ready to forgive Veronica for Allegiant. In seriousness, it was so entertaining, and really quite thought provoking. Sure, some of the stories I liked more than others, but they were all quality, all were so well-developed that it hardly felt like I was reading short stories at all. I fell so in love with one story in particular (Inertia, which happened to be the first story), that I might have sobbed in a bubble bath. (Just kidding, I definitely sobbed during a bubble bath.) I tell you this because that is how powerful these stories felt. How did I care about these characters in such a short amount of time? That's pretty magical, frankly. And since a few stories are set in the world of Carve the Mark, guess that means I am getting to that sooner than later too.

Bottom Line: These stories will entertain, and make you feel. They're exciting, but they're also very human, reminding us of who we are regardless of where in the universe we end up.