Review: Decent Trio of Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
This collection of three stories, all by different authors, presents three very different speculative/romantic science fiction stories.The first story, "All That Glitters" takes place on another planet. Highborn Mica Sol's ship is shot down in a hijacking/kidnapping attempt. Turns out, the people who shot her down is led by an old flame - what brought him to that state and how will they proceed?  The story had a romeo and juliet type of heart and certainly there was some humor thrown in as well.The second story, To Buy A Wife, is a bleak dystopian type story in which women have little power and are traded as pawns in a pseudo puritan / luddite type of world.  Hudson Land comes to buy a wife but ends up with a rebel. He runs the risk of losing everything he has in that bleak world if she won't give up and give in to her new life.The third story, Enslaved by Starlight, is similar to the first book. In this case, a world calls upon a mercenary to save them from invaders - but he doesn't like the way their system works and certainly doesn't like the idea of being offered a sex slave as a payment.All three stories are just long enough to create a decent story arc.  I was a bit disappointment, though, to see there is a second book out - continuing the stories. I prefer to see a story all in one book - not pieces of 3 stories continually published.But in all, this is a very decent price on Amazon and has the romantic sci fi and action to keep a reader satisfied.Provided by the publisher as an ARC