The three best stories in this anthology are "Le Fee Verte" by Delia Sherman, "Femaville 29" by Paul Di Filippo, and "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" by Lavie Tidhar (which is an excellent story about the effects of terrorism). There is a wonderful sense of place and time in those stories and make the book a keeper. The other stories are mixed. For instance, "The Guardian of the Egg" has some wonderful descriptions but the plot is predictable. Other stories just aren't engrossing; they aren't bad but not overly memorable.
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The three best stories in this anthology are "Le Fee Verte" by Delia Sherman, "Femaville 29" by Paul Di Filippo, and "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" by Lavie Tidhar (which is an excellent story about the effects of terrorism). There is a wonderful sense of place and time in those stories and make the book a keeper. The other stories are mixed. For instance, "The Guardian of the Egg" has some wonderful descriptions but the plot is predictable. Other stories just aren't engrossing; they aren't bad but not overly memorable.
