Status Updates From Needle in a Timestack

Taking a break from this one for now to go and read something else.

To be honest, I'm not enjoying it that much - the stories i have read so far have varied in quality from mediocre to average. I'm starting to think that maybe I enjoy his novels more than his short stories...

Ringing the changes: this story feels like a creative writing practice dribble, with an end that feels sudden — like the author knew it was time for an ending and quickly threw something together. Very eh.

Translation error: an alien tries to intervene in human history to stop them from becoming powerful, but in multiple timeliness is astonished to find humans are Just Plain Powerful. It's rather bland

Reality trip: omg alien crab romance is um. Um. Uhhhhh..... my thing. This was an increasingly funny story with a solid alien pov that I enjoyed a lot. It made the failure of the previous story rather surprising
Shrines of earth: ah. It's alright, but very basic. I see the joke in it, it's mildly amusing, but its a real 'sensible chuckle' of a story and nothing more
Black is beautiful: Dude The Fuck. Cmon.