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4.0

Great short story collection. Most of the stories are more setting or concept-driven than character driven. Many of the stories were very New York (e.g. "The You Train", "The City Born Great"). "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" & "Too Many Yesterdays, not Enough Tomorrows" felt very relevant to 2020, for different reasons (hell world & isolation, respectively). All of these stories are great examples of how a short story can be a great vehicle for describing a world or fantastic setting. I've read a fair number of fantasy & sf novels that were set in interesting worlds, or dealt with interesting concepts, but failed because they tried to roll everything up into a novel following certain characters through a grand narrative.... but I digress. I'll definitely want to read Jemisin's other collections, and also the Dreamblood novels.