There's a lot to like about the book not least because there's a lot in general; one of its defining features is its eagerness to DO ALL THE THINGS and this cuts both ways.

These characters use technology as a tool for grief, tapping into the Greek root of the word technology as a teachable art.

A big book, it has the feel of arrival, this mysterious rectangular object finally crashing down from the future, or many futures.

Shattered Minds stumbles on far too many occasions.

Corpselight constructs a tale in which all extraordinary happenstance takes an emotional back-seat to the primacy of family life.

In Other Lands isn’t the most action-packed novel I’ve read, but what it lacks in pulse-pounding plot points it more than makes up for in character, wit, and heart.

Aesthetics are a neglected aspect of so many other domains—politics and economics and theology—but not here. What Moreno-Garcia doesis nudge it more toward the fore, exploring how the Beautiful Ones assert (or fail to assert) their rule over each other by way of aesthetic captivation.

A thief walks into a temple and picks up a girl. Well, not a girl, exactly; our thief finds Thrift perched on an altar, like her sisters.

The world of Want definitely feels like one that could be starting now, or perhaps already has: residents of cities in China and India are no strangers to literally life-shortening air pollution, and neither are members of marginalized communities living next to polluted sites worldwide.

While the short stories might be able to stand alone, they’re also clearly meant as a set. There’s a synergy between them that’s important to establishing Yap’s premises.