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Read the first three shorts here over a breakfast waffle at the local diner, and they almost perfectly encapsulate my issues with short stories: they tend to be either mere sketches of an idea, throw-away jokes, or well-developed ideas that would be much better as the start of something. I got frustrated with Mieville's "Three Moments of an Explosion" for the same reason. Looking forward to the novella.

I don't normally get along well with short story collections, for one reason or another. They just don't generally fit how I read. Well, we'll see how this goes.