It’s hard to write speculative fiction with a social issues bent in the 2010s and beyond without accusation of Black Mirror-lite. So, perhaps readers might be interested to hear some of these stories predate the show, and that they have more in common with the tradition of Borges and other Argentinian/Chilean magical realism authors in addition to the contemporary issues of today (and yesterday, and tomorrow). I respected how the “Lifecycle” story to its extreme end, I found the title story masterful as a response to Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith”, and I enjoyed the parable-esque nature of the rest. The only one I thought a little trite was “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”, which kinda failed on the dual-story part with the African analog seeming cliché. But it’s a small price to pay for the overall collection.