 I've mentioned before how I have a dislike for writers that emphasize style over story, but of course with with every rule and every preference like that there are going to be exceptions and this is one of them. This collection of stories by Joanna Russ is some of the best writing I've ever read, some of the best science fiction and weird fiction I've ever read. There are a lot of stories in here, most of them are very short, look how many and there's a wide variety of both subject matter and styles in here. She experiments with all sorts of different approaches to storytelling in here. Some of them are so bizarre that they're incoherent and that's the kind of thing that I don't like. It's specifically the sort of thing that I don't like from writers like Roger Zalazny and basically any cyberpunk style writer, but most of the stuff in here is so beautiful that I have to give it my highest recommendation, particularly if you're looking for women writers in science fiction and women's issues in science fiction I would recommend this. For example how Dorothy kept away the spring is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. It's almost poetry really, it's very short and it's it's so closely tied to the experience of women that I must be missing half of the meaning of the story and half of the feeling of the story simply because I'm not a woman and then there's some nonfiction in here as well. For example she writes about cliches in science fiction that she's sick of, first of which is the weird ways of getting pregnant story. This is the 1970s when she was writing this. She was already sick of this stuff and then I also have to mention this story, Nor Custom Stale. It's one of the most interesting science fiction stories I've ever read. It's difficult for me to describe it without giving it away. Again it's so short. If you want to pause the picture and look at the first couple of paragraphs there you're welcome to it. So Joanna Russ, highly recommended.