Gwyndolyn

A fantastically fun series of thought experiments, only occasionally brought down by the somewhat cringey nerd humour you would expect of an American.

One of the most fantastically complex books I've ever read, recursive and expansive in scope, both playing fantastically with wordplay and whitespace while remaining inside perfectly structured grammar. Though a simple horror-story is at its heart, it is layered in theme and emotion that makes it a deeply engrossing read. Would recommend to anyone who is a fan of the unusual, the obtuse, and the deeply affecting.

reading one book by Carl Sagan and immediately Getting It. what a good lecturer, truly the intellectual that every hack Atheist wishes they could be

Unfortunately the Jungian analysis requires a level of buy-in that i just don't think is justified. it's an interesting breakdown of feminine cultural signifiers but like a lot of Jung it extrapolates socially constructed traits into metaphysical universal truths with little proof or reasoning beyond assertion. Not really worth the time alas

Many wonderful story elements which stick with and linger in your mind. I think there's a bit of tendency to only read the first set of stories and skip the back half of the book, since they don't directly relate to the titular fiction. But they weave thematic threads and vague connections which work very well together.