A review by laurareads87
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction by Irene Gallo

3.0

As a definite fan of Tor, I was happy to pick up this anthology when I saw it featured on the sale table at a local bookstore. Unsurprisingly, I found the book varied a lot -- I did rate each story individually for myself, and they ranged from zero/DNF up to five stars. I'd read two of the stories before -- "The City, Born Great" by NK Jemisin and "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal -- both of which I loved. I'm happy to say that I found some new five star reads here, some by authors I'd not read before. In this respect, I especially liked "Damage" by David D Levine, "The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere" by John Chu, and "Reborn" by Ken Liu. I'd also previously read other works by JY Yang, Yoon Ha Lee, Max Gladstone, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kai Ashante Wilson, and was happy to see them all included here and enjoyed all of their stories as well. One or two felt like they were perhaps excerpts from longer works, and a few stories I simply did not like at all but overall I'm glad I picked this up.