Gateways

I found this collection to be of higher quality than other such collections; Brin's “Shoresteading”, Phyllis and Jake Eisenstein's “Von Neumann's Bug” and Nye's “Virtually, A Cat” are among the best, with Vinge's “A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee”, and Resnick's “On Safari” quite enjoyable as well. Nearly all of the tales I would rate as better-than-most.

This is a very enjoyable homage to a very talented SF writer, by many other talented SF writers. Each story was so different, yet all were very human (if you'll excuse my earth-centricity). Some of my favourites are Chicken Little by Cory Doctorow for its insight, On Safari by Mike Resnick for its humour, and I am very much looking forward to the finished novel Tales from the Spaceship Geoffrey by James Gunn from which 4 chapters were pulled for this anthology.