Status Updates From The Night Wire and Other Ta...

The other reviewers are correct! Once you hit 1911, the stories improve dramatically. The title story "The Night Wire" (1926) is superb.

I'd guess, this editor was more interested in showing the development of technology through fiction than with quality of story.

so far: awful. Full of high-blown Victorian gobbledygook language you just can't follow, so you have no real clue what's happening or being described. I'm not alone there, many reviews say the 2nd half of the anthology is much better. Let's hope.