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"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" - I enjoyed the premise of this: Commercially available devices allowing one to communicate with one's self in a branched of alternate reality. But the scam story and drama built on this premise dragged on too much for me.

"The great silence" - not really a story, but passages of text meant to accompany a multimedial exhibition

"The truth of fact, the truth of feeling" is an interesting discussion of the implications of perfect, searchable episodic memory as a mental peripheral. The juxtaposition with a story about the introduction of writing to an oral culture felt heavy-handed though.

"Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny", neat, mostly for the style of writing

"The life cycle of software objects" -- this one dragged on for too long before presenting some interesting ideas, then ended before really developing them

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"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"