A review by mburnamfink
Mission Critical by Peter F. Hamilton, Yoon Ha Lee

4.0

Strahan is quickly becoming one of my favorite anthology editors; a man capable of assembling impressive contemporary talent. This collection is themed around emergency in space, in the Apollo 13 style "Failure is not an option" improvisations. It's an inspired prompt, one that allows a crew of genre masters to rapidly develop setting and character and throw them into the ringer. Special award to By The Warmth of Their Calculus by Tobias Brucknell for a resolutely analog spacefaring culture, and one that tells the classic short story The Cold Equations to get stuffed.

I found two stories unreadable, which brings this down a peg, but it's hard for an anthology to bat 100, and with short stories, there's no harm in bailing.