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jelundberg's review
An important and expansive collection from a vastly underrated writer. Shiner's fiction, interstitial (before the term was even coined) and exploratory, is stripped of any pretension, reveling in counterfactual numinosity. His characters exist in unfair worlds, trapped by circumstance yet always searching for Truth. Favorites include "Perfidia," "Primes," "Love in Vain" and "The Death of Che Guevara."
rickklaw's review
5.0
Fresh from his climactic return to novel-length fiction (last year's [b:Black & White|2763045|Black & White|Lewis Shiner|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZD50Q%2BiHL._SL75_.jpg|2788755], Shiner's Collected Stories offers 41 of the finest short stories from his three decade career. Tackling a wide variety of subjects (serial killers, tennis, Kennedy assassination, Tesla, music, to name just a few), and genres (sf/f, mystery, horror, and dare I say it, even literary), the often-unheralded Shiner produced some of the best written and most interesting tales of his generation.
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