Fantasy short stories with hard sci-fi feel and elements, with Some stories blending space opera and fantasy. The logical progression from theory to premise to logical conclusion feels a little relentless in some of these stories (not surprised at all that Lee was a math major in college). Most of the stories keep suspense by keeping the reader in the dark about what it is the main character is up to. These elements give this collection a little bit of the feel of 50s-60s SF anthologies I've read. I thought the last story was going to be more metaphorical than it turned out to be. A main theme across these stories is occupation and resistance, and most of the characters are fighters of some sort. All in all a good find for a collection I picked up because it happened to be next to LeGuin on the library shelf.