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Here are the five shortest stories in the book. If this faint praise makes you reluctant to pick up the thirteenth book, let me try to entice you. I found several of the 25 stories enjoyable, but the collection as a whole had less sparkle than I've grown used to reading the other fourteen books. The thirteenth in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF series was hard to find, even as a used paperback-there is no Kindle version. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more.

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