Status Updates From Conditionally Human (The Ga...

Dark Benediction - A man tries to avoid getting alien brain plague. Includes a big misconception on how evolution works.

The Darfsteller - I've read this before and I'm not keen on rereading it. The first ever Hugo winner for Best Novelette, it's genuinely good when it's not bogged down in describing speculative technology.

Conditionally Human - The titular story is a ball of 1950s concerns about overpopulation and newer ones about the humanity of generically modified humans. It's conclusions are obvious, but it's ending is kind of bonkers too.

Second novella much better than first.

First novella was well-written, but the premise itself was too goofily Malthusian for me to really accept.