The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories is a short story collection by Walter Jon Williams. The titular story wasn't all the exciting or interesting. I guess what happened between when it was written and today is that global heating became a much bigger problem and famine became a much less problem, and nowadays we understand that the underlying cause (inequality) isn't a technological problem but rather a social problem that won't be solved by technology.
The first story in the collection is Daddy's World, which is interesting and holds its interest. In fact, most of the stories in the book are about childhood, parenting, and the constant conflict between parents and their offspring, themes that will hold for as long as there are parents and children. Most of these are a lot of fun to read, though none of them address the fundamental problem that the world is facing today, which is that offspring is a societal benefit but a major expense and cost borne by individual families, and society hasn't decided that imbalance is worth correcting.
In any case, I enjoyed most of the stories in this book--there's one that I skipped because I have no interest in Westerns, but otherwise it was well worth the kindle price of $5.
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