Title: Way too clever for his readers' good... Every story is about the same thing: William Tenn
Product review: I'm sorry fans, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get past the "cleverness" of these so called stories---can a story be a story with neither characters nor scene? Tenn's "stories" have neither. They are merely whimsical commentaries on nonsensical situations and, must have been written in front of a mirror, so self-focused are they. We are never allowed to feel anything other than the author's cynicism. We are never allowed to see anything happen. Instead we are offered blather only an intellectual could love.Though I'm a collector of many of NESFA's great golden age SF, this is one writer who should have been allowed to vanish into the mists of pulp history. If it's good stories you're looking for, skip this one and instead go for James H. Schmitz, Chad Oliver or James Triptree.
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