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Drowned Worlds
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September 11, 2017
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September 30, 2017
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Jim
May 13, 2018 rated it it was ok
I love short SF stories. The old SF pulps were my intro into the world of reading. I didn't care for these stories, though. They were long on descriptions & angst. The characters were OK, but generally not really likable, at least I never got attached to any. The points of the stories were trite & drowned in the imagery. Strahan seems to have picked them mostly to show how we're destroying the world. That's fine once, got old due to repetition, & eventually lost its impact entirely.

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