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I actually really enjoyed some of these stories. But this is a wildly uneven collection, with many stories that just fail to launch, that feel overwrought and overwritten, pretentious and pointless. Even the stories I liked (The Next Thing, We Others, August Eschenburg) have a tendency to start off very slowly before anything interesting happens and then they peter out again towards the end. With every story, I left thinking “What was the point?��