Title: Unexpectedly good series of short sf stories
Product review: I bought this collection for the novella "Fast times at Fairmount high" on the random reccomendation that it was on the 2007 "Futurama" calendar as a Read this. The novella is good, serious SF with a hint of humour and a lightness of touch. The bonus was an almost complete collection of the authours other short works complete with introductions by the authour. His range is wide and you can see his style develop over the years. The stories are more than usually thought provoking without baffling the reader with science (although he does like difficult to pronounce character names). I will re-read the lot in about six months (a rather geekinsh habit of mine to check whether my first imopressions are still right) and am looking forward to that enormously.
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