![]() It feels like damning the book with faint praise to say so, but isn’t that exactly how short-story collections generally work? A couple are excellent, most are good, a couple don’t really work. That said, there is an inevitable danger in accelerating SF hype into hyperspace. There are enough classic Chiang shorts to make this collection something special ![]() Now is the time for the rest of us to discover his unique imagination.” That “rest of us” is, perhaps, ill-judged (don’t you rest-of-us me, sunshine: I’ve been reading Chiang for decades), but there’s no denying that it is an appealing prospect. “In the world of the science-fiction short story Chiang’s work is legendary. Picador’s advance publicity for this, only his second collection, betrays a certain excitability.
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