Review: A solid, if a bit uneven collection
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2011
Tired phrase that "there is something for everyone" holds pretty well for this collection, but if you are looking for ingenious new ideas, this Fulda's work is not the best place to find them. Most of the stories explore pretty familiar territory (two, rather predictable ones, are about human cloning (memories and all) and identity problems that brings, one is placed among human colonists who forgot their origins, another among confused and conflicted AIs preparing future colony site who got their purpose all wrong, there are several hinging on action...) But Fulda writes well, her prose flows nicely and imagery is strong. The later especially applies to my favorite, "Monument", barely four pages long sketch about poignant memories of the first contact gone wrong.Star-wise, this is perhaps not a clear "four", but "three" would be too low. Enough to put the author on "watch list".