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Enjoying this so much I might just drop everything and read the series to the end.

Loved the 1st three stories. Not so crazy about 'Trinity' by Nancy Kress.

It's good to be among civilised people again.

'A smell is the most complicated phenomenon in the world,' he said, 'and it cannot be unravelled by the human snout or understood properly although dogs have a better way with smells than we have.'
'But dogs are very poor riders on bicycles,' MacCruiskeen said, presenting the other side of the comparison.

The climbing boy of the title are chimney sweeps' apprentices; i.e. the small boys (and girls) who used to climb chimneys to clean them.

OK so far, with some good information I hadn't seen before, but at times it reads like a catalogue of atrocities. It's largely concerned with exposing the horrors of the chimney-sweeping life, so doesn't have much to say about anything else.