This is a very mixed bag of stories, some are very interesting and draw you in while some felt, to me at least, as if they were trying too hard to be edgy and hip. These are all stories about Gender and Gender appearance and dealing with alternative ways of looking at and dealing with gender. It r...
Back in the '70s, Jack Dann brought out the collection Wandering Stars, the first Jewish themed SF & Fantasy collection. WS became a classic, and a popular Bar & Bat Mitzvah gift. Swirsky continues that tradition with People of the Book, a decade's worth of Jewish theme speculative fiction.I found ...
I had already read most of these stories in other anthologies.Liked:“Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes,” Lawrence Block (one of my favorite short stories)“Nunc Dimittis,” Tanith Lee (all of her short stories are excellent)“The Girl with Hungry Eyes,” Fritz Leiber“Tallulah,” Charles de Lint“The Snake Woman’s Lover...
I was pretty excited to get an ARC of this brand-new book...Unfortunately, none of the stories included are actually new - I'd read the bulk of the book before. This doesn't mean these aren't good stories... but if you're a fan of many of these authors, as I am, you've probably already read these.Al...