Things We Didn't See Coming is a 2009 short story collection by the Australian author Steven Amsterdam originally published by Sleepers Publishing.
It was the winner of the 2009 The Age Book of the Year Award â Fiction.
The collection comprises nine inter-connected stories which follow one man over a period of three decades.
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."
After the collection's initial publication by Sleepers Publishing in Australia in 2009, it was republished as follows:
It was also translated into Dutch in 2010, and French in 2012.