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And the second whoops goes to Harry Turtledove for needing a hologram how-to.

Silverberg is more fantasist than SF, but still surprised he blew his story's plot: sonar (propagating sounds) doesn't work in a vacuum!

Ray Bradbury's story is quite interesting and captured my attention immediately. I do find the made up words hard to remember, but this is not a big problem.

Island of the Gods by Harry Turtledove was a delightful little short story about cooperation and overcoming prejudice. Easily the funniest of the stories in the book, and quite possibly my favorite.

The Burning Sky by Poul Anderson is a long short story, more like a novella. It deals with jealousy, redemption, personal and interspecies distrust, loyalty and envy.

Myryx by Robert Sheckley made me feel like I should have been high or really drunk for most of it. Consider it a story of not believing everything you see and hear.

Diplomacy Guild by David Brin is a cute little story about the difficulties of diplomacy among the races and also an open ended narrative of the dangers of unintended consequences.

They Hide, We Seek by Silverberg was excellent. Bold humans and bold, though slightly more timid aliens. A beautiful introduction to the series with four of the six starfaring races finding a hidden city of wonder in an out of the way corner of the galaxy. There is some nice science history to go with it as well.