It takes a fine balance to make each story feel satisfying in itself yet makes you want to read more to pull off this trilogy's serialized format. There's s good diversity of authors in this collection, tackling a variety of relevant themes, but most of them are focused on what freedom, or the lack therof, could look like in the future. As if that will be our only concern. I imagine many conservatives will find several of the stories to be "libtard whining," but I also imagine we won't find out anytime soon because those type of people probably don't pick up books like this in the first place.
Moreover, a lot of the stories are well-written and interesting, but interesting is a rather heartless word.
Most of them share the sci-fi trope of having a very heady, reserved tone. I lost count of how many of the stories in this book begin with the premise of "I'm down on my luck, so I'll participate in this experiment that ends up screwing me over." Many of protagonists in these stories narrate and act like the same character, just in different situations. And despite these stories having three established editors, there's a few glaring plot holes in the book that made me cringe.
The one remarkable exception to this is Hugh Howey's contribution, Inheritors. It's some of his best writing, which is to say a lot.
All considered, it's still worth 4 stars in my book. I'm just parsing out the relatively minor issues I had with it here. It is indeed very good overall.
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