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The Future, Imperfect: Six Dystopian Short Stories by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold (
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Wikipedia), a mini-collection of Exactly What It Says In The Title, mostly originally published in Asimov's SF magazine and other outlets, with one story also reprinted in the 2007 volume of Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction, according to the blurb.
"The Future, Imperfect" is a collection of near future, dystopian short stories by Ruth Nestvold. Environmental changes -- slow in some regions, catastrophic in others -- have had a major effect on our world, not for the better. While water wars and pandemics have devastated the Mediterranean region, and a major earthquake and the resulting destruction of nuclear power plants and sensitive research facilities have made much of California a wasteland, corporate-sponsored enclaves defend themselves from the have-nots. What can any one individual do to make a difference is such a world? These are the stories both of those who tried and those who failed.