exquisitecorp • read

A large anthology of science fiction, speculative fiction and farcical stories of the near future. The ones that were too farcical grated on me, insulted my intelligence, but many others were quite good, conveying whole complex worlds in short stories only a couple pages long. Because the stories are so short, they are packed in, and when I loved a short story I quickly moved on to another that might be bland or humorless and found myself forgetting earlier ones. I felt like I should take more detailed notes of the whole book. Overall, some real gems here and I'd definitely recommend it especially for someone that reads in lots of spurts, before bed, while traveling, etc. The other thing I liked is that it's almost all writers I didn't know previously.