This is a collection of absolutely top-notch speculative fiction stories.

Given the quality of the stories, stating that the editing and formatting are excellent seems almost a formality, so I shall get it out of the way:they are. As with many anthologies, each story has a short bio of the story’s author after it for readers to look up more of their work.

While the stories themselves range across genres from horror, fantasy and SF, ambiguity and nuance is the order of the day, with endings that bothpull the pieces together and leave the reader room for thought. Some of the gems here include a bittersweet story about a teen girl dyeing her hair tolook like her idol, robots planning to escape and scam an A.I., and a top secret military program. These are character-driven, but with a real senseof the wider worlds around them.
This collection has something for almost all readers, and I only say almost because children may miss some of the nuance that make them so good. Forspeculative fiction readers, this comes with a stamp of must-read. For anyone else who likes their writing top-class and storytelling masterly, pickit up.