Postcards From The Future: A Triptych on Humanity’s End is a work of dystopian fiction split into three separate stories, and was penned by author team Andrew C Lark, Donald Levin, and Wendy Sura Thomson. Within this tense, bleak and entirely human narrative, we play witness to three events set at different points during and after an apocalyptic event which sees humanity on the verge of extinction, desperate to survive. In the first tale, Andrew C Lark takes us through the trauma of a destructive virus that wipes out fertility and reproduction, which is then followed by Donald Levin and Wendy Sura Thomson speculating on how humanity may survive in a devastated world, and when that world itself may one day be destroyed.

Though they are not thematically intended to be connected to one another, the timeline of these dark and inviting tales makes for some cohesion in the reading as we wander from disaster to survival, then back to the ultimate end of all things. I particularly enjoyed Donald Levin’s ‘The Bright and Darkened Lands of Earth’ for its ecological themes, which touched base with many relevant issues in fiction today. The entire team of Andrew C Lark, Donald Levin, and Wendy Sura Thomson writes with excellent suspense and a sense of control over the worlds which they have created (or destroyed), and their characters emote through dialogue and well-described action to build an atmosphere on every page. Overall, Postcards From The Future: A Triptych on Humanity’s End is an excellent collection which is certain to entertain fans of the dystopian and post-apocalyptic genres.

Postcards From The Future is ‘A Triptych on Humanity’s End’. Andrew C. Lark’s Pollen is the first novella, where a surviving naval officer woke up from his induced coma to find a different kind of life on Earth. It chronicles a strange phenomenon called Pollen that changed the world, told through handwritten diaries of different people in which some of the individuals were ‘different’. It's a powerful start for the collection from Lark－a tale about how flaws are corrected.

The second story is The Bright And Darkened Lands Of The Earth by Donald Levin, a dystopian tale where the world is ravaged by weapons of war. Young Ash is a Venger, someone who scavenges for anything useful and locates potential food sources for her small group of people. Hope comes in the form of a book about a fertile land; a hope for her dying settlement. It’s a harsh painting of the future if wars are used to solve disagreements. Protagonist Ash, however, shows the quality of a human being that we all can be proud of; the will to survive.

Wendy Sura Thomson’s Silo Six concluded this thought-provoking triptych. It’s a story set in the far distant future. Couple Bailey and Ephraim have been living in a community that is safe and predictable until they find out what their superiors have planned for them. This fascinating and poignant tale emphasizes how precious time is when it concerns a planet we called home as well as our loved ones. Simply put, readers will be pleased with the level of intrigue and the proposed prospicience of Postcards From The Future.