Review: You Won't Be Alienated
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2013
The title of this collection of fine short stories is, I guess, ironic - for although there are aliens here aplenty, what comes through is their essential humanness (or, OK, alienness). These are living, breathing, feeling people like you or I, however fantastic or otherworldly their situation. Fowler has a real knack of of showing us events seen through other, non-human eyes.Stand out story for me was Mo's - a simple tale of human/alien interaction set against a background of racist suspicion on an Earth very much like our own. It's a surprisingly gentle tale, but that makes it all the more gripping because of the background story Fowler creates.There'll be something for everyone in this collection of stories - I heartily recommend it.