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As with the previous volume, not every story merits 5 stars, but the overall quality is excellent. Well known, established authors along with new names, several in translation. A great example of the wide diversity of talent working today in the speculative genres.http://templetongate.net/sunspot-jung...
Like any short story collection with this many stories (over 50) there were amazing highs and some lows but the average ended up being a 4 star collection with amazingly diverse stories from all over the world! Below are the stand out stories for me: Straight Lines by Naru Dames Sundar - Such a wonderful story about a space ship who goes through therapy to handle their past and cope with its OCD. I read this 2 months ago and its still stuck with me.Waiting for the Flood OR the Bathers by Natalia...
I have a full length review of my general impressions of this anthology, personal highlights, and stories that were honorable mentions on my YouTube channel here: https://studio.youtube.com/video/CW-l...
This collection was incredibly diverse with SFF authors from all over the globe and a good chunk of the stories in translation. I loved that variety, but it also meant that there were quite a number of stories that didn't work for me. I probably DNF'd around 20% of the stories in this collection. I also gave around 20% of the stories 5-stars, though! There were some really outstanding stories in here that make me very interested in reading more by those authors. Basically, this collection is wel...