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Um livro de contos muito inconstante e por vezes com alguns deles pouco apelativos e demasiadamente complexos. Mas apesar dissso tem algumas surpresas agradáveis

stevo1977's review against another edition

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2.0

I got this book to read the short stories "A Matter of Traces" (cute, but I didn't get it) and "The Tactful Saboteur" (cool, espionage-like story with alien cultures) as they were the first appearance of Jorj X. Mckie, the Consentiency, and the Bureau of Sabotage. I found myself not enjoying any of the stories in this collection save one, "Murder Will In". I found out later that this story originally appeared in a collection with a very interesting premise: five sci-fi authors were given a prompt (something like "William Bailey goes into the Euthanasia Center, is injected with something and lain on a table.") and wrote short stories from there. Herbert's entry is actually really good. It is a thriller, where life hangs by a thread for most of the story, in which we are introduced to a being called the Tegas. The Tegas lives through possession of a host, and jumps from being to being upon their death. I won't say anymore for fear of spoilers, but that story by itself made reading the collection worthwhile.

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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