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Another day, another review to be grateful for. This one is by Trish Matson in The Skiffy and Fanty Show. Much of the review focuses on the female characters in The Universe Box's stories. Which, when you're a reviewer of genre fiction and a woman is pretty much a moral duty. I will confess that I was a little nervous here. Mastodons still roamed the steppes when I was young and sexism was the flavor of the era so, despite all the lessons learned in the millennia since, I'm still wary of unrecognized biases.
But I didn't trip any warning alarms. Phew!
According to Ms. Matson, The Universe Box "took me on a wild trip of experiences, with tones ranging from surrealistic to snappy, giggly to grim, and much more, and left me with a lot to think about."
You can read the review here.
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Thanks to the magic of pre-ordering and a so-so memory, it was a happy surprise to have Universe Box turn up on my kindle. I'm particularly glad to see Starlight Express and Star-Bear in there. Now I just have to line up a paper copy...
I did notice in the front matter under "Collections" that it didn't mention "Not So Much Said The Cat", nor for that matter the second volume of the Best Of.
I presume this is similar to the concept of the Persian Flaw (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Persian_flaw), with publishers declaring that only God can produce a book free of typesetting errors.
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