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A solid collection; Taylor manages to hit up many subgenres within sci-fi, and also make First Nations issues clear. The stories kind of all have the same voice (which makes sense, since he's written all of them) but I would say the plots are different enough that they don't all feel the same, necessarily. Some are very funny, and some are deeply moving (the one about the man in space whose grandfather has died in particular jumps out at me) and some are tense. It's a short, solid collection for sure. I also LOVED the note in the acknowledgements re: (not) using Kanien'kehá:ka stories and what that means, and I'd encourage writers to read that and think about it, for sure. If you like sci-fi, and you want a little taste of a bunch of different flavors of sci-fi, this is definitely recommended.