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scmiller's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Addiction, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Drug abuse, and Grief
arayo's review
5.0
Moderate: Death and Child abuse
Minor: Colonisation, Murder, Drug abuse, Addiction, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization
fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
The stories cover all the big sci-fi themes: time travel, free will, AI, etc. and they add interesting new nuances or takes to them. The stories range from newspaper article like to fable to general prose, it is really amazing seeing one author nail all of them.
It's really hard to pick my favourite story, I think it comes down to either the Parrot's story or the Archeologist's story.
The book also comes with some explanations/notes on the stories by the author. It's interesting to see, where he got his inspiration from and his reasoning for some of his choices.
Minor: Animal cruelty, Addiction, Gun violence, and Colonisation
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Colonisation, Addiction, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder
Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Classism, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Sexism, Ableism, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Misogyny
Extinction and apocalyptic events in multiple stories. Dissection, though with visuals of machinery rather than flesh ("Exhalation"). Mentions of bestiality, discussion of sentient sex dolls, cruelty to and dehumanization of AIs/robots, emotional infidelity ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects"). Mentions of natural disasters, manipulation/extortion ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom").rnbhargava's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Body horror, Grief, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Car accident, Classism, Colonisation, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Slavery, and Terminal illness
The triggers above are all treated as extremes, they’re not confined, those showing preference for those are all ultimately less than savoury even if they’re our point of view character. Most of the tales have a good amount of intellectual curiosity and whimsy in at least a portion of them