This is a weird one. First off, hats off to Blumlein for genuinely unsettling me, that is honestly a task. The problem I had here is that he very specifically goes into some real shitty Boomer POVs on certain topics (gender, trans people) that I can't tell if he actually believes or if he's trying to make a point using it in his stories. The fact that it comes up more than once is where I get unsure. Interesting anthology if nothing else!

This was my second foray into the works for Michael Blumlein, and I'm just not sure he's my cup of tea. He writes very well, and the stories are not bad, but they just didn't resonate with me in the way I would like. It's hard to explain but they just didn't "land". I did enjoy "The Glitter and the Glamour", "The Thing Itself", and "Snow in Dirt". The rest were just sort of alright.

Well, this definitely wasn't a boring anthology. The short fiction in the collection was complex, difficult, and extremely scientific. Although, I don't think Blumlein is my cup of tea, I do think this is an interesting volume that fans of his work and of scientific speculative fiction will enjoy.