This takes me back: right back to old dog-eared Analogs and Amazings I used to get in a swap shop more than 55 years ago, when I read EVERYTHING SF I could get my hands on. And a LOT of it was short stories, and they taught me the length, breadth and diversity of SF/F. I graduated to finding novels by the authors I really liked from their short stories, and it’s probably time to do it again - and these are MARVELLOUS collections to do that with. Not a dud in the whole collection, although as always, some go a bit over my head. And I marvel at the effortless inventiveness of others. Read. You will like 🤩

Most of the stories were enjoyable. Some very thought provoking stories which are good reading. A number of the authors were new to me and I will seek them out.

This is a collection of some of the best-developed sci-fi shorts I have read in a while. Not space opera, not maudlin humanism. Well done and worth reading.

Must have been the culls from previous books! 1 or 2 good stories at best. Wordy beyond comprehension on several stories. I gave it 3 stars, but on second thought that was 2 stars too many!

Lots of crap anthologies out there but this is not one of them. Solid plots, imaginative ideas that didn't make me feel like they were written by madlibs

The individual stories vary in quality, but collectively they make for a compelling read. I've reread several they are that good.

If I read one more story about climate change or transgenderites I'm going to swear off reading anything written by new "authors". The first 5 pieces in this book are tripe. I don't know about the rest because I gave up.

Not worth reading. Re-run plots, tired stories that are a rehash of stories written 30 years ago. Don't bother taking up space downloading this worthless anthology.

Wide range of stories some quite short others novella length wide range of sci go genres all well written with well formed and believable characters full of new ideas and well worked old ones.

I normally expect to skip a few stories in an anthology, including in earlier books on this series. Unfortunately I skipped a lot more in this issue, and many stories weren't "hard SF" at all. Some of the stories were more like fantasy, others did not have SF as a major part of their plot. There were some good stories here, mostly written by authors that I usually like, but I expect I might be better off with other anthologies that also include the good stories.