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'Once More, from the Top...' elucidates the infamous Innsmouth raid that gave birth to Delta Green. By this account it was a much messier and more desperate an engagement than I'd have thought, and having the experience told through the eyes of one of the unwitting and inexperienced men in the thick of things served to greater highlight the shock and confusion. And Charlie Paskow is a character worth reading about
— Mar 09, 2013 05:06PM
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'The Fast Track' was a brilliant close to the anthology, detailing the personal suffering and struggles of a particular DG agent and closing with a fine moment of the wizened long-game plays that earned Alphonse his posting.
— Mar 12, 2013 05:09AM
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'Good night, Bach Ma, Good-Bye' was average at best. It was shallow, trite and uninteresting.
— Mar 12, 2013 02:46AM
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'The Corn King' was a brief vignette that sketched DG's old leader, from after it was officially disbanded but before it was restructured as a cell-based conspiracy, with crazed, brash strokes. He was very different to the resigned old man I'd previously imagined, though perhaps my image had been trained from what I knew of his eventual successor. It was a fun read but shallow, bringing little to the table
— Mar 11, 2013 05:54PM
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'Suicide Watch' was... wow. Not at all what I expected, but absolutely amazing all up. It didn't feel like a DG story, but one that drew upon a wide gamut of the Mythos. The story within the story of a virtuoso violinist and his lover, Lanois' lyrics, and the hallucinations during the march through Laos were all so poignant, intense, and resounding that I'm sure they will haunt me for a long time yet
— Mar 11, 2013 06:46AM
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'As I see It' filters some of the low-level all-but-incomprehensible extra-dimensionality that features in so many Mythos stories through a human protagonist to make it more palatable and easily digested by the reader. I really appreciate the stark vividity of Stolze's descriptions of the tricks of perspective exploited by the extra-dimensional beings in this story
— Mar 10, 2013 10:33PM
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'Russian Dolls' had me legitimately creeped out. It was a confusing, surreal, and frankly horrifying account of the experimentation conducted by the Mi-Go. The unsettling atmosphere was well maintained throughout and I'm confident I'll be returning to this story again
— Mar 10, 2013 05:03AM
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'Night and Water' was simply par for the course; a story of DG's shadow war with the Karotechia (Nazi supernaturalists) that, while competently executed, brought nothing new to the table.
— Mar 10, 2013 03:30AM