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