valashain
4/12/2014
...The choice to present these stories in chronological rather than publication order means the reader frequently moves between various stages in Anderson’s development as a writer. Just the setting does not quite provide enough continuity to make this collection a coherent whole in my opinion. Still, there’s some pretty interesting short fiction here, if you can overcome an unsympathetic main character in some of them...
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http://valsrandomcomments.blogspot.com/2010/03/van-rijn-method-poul-anderson.html