Enea Dhiamandi Dhiamandi itibaren Tosagua, Ekvador
I liked this one even better than "Still-Life With Woodpecker," and definitely better than "Another Roadside Attraction." "I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. I believe in everything; nothing is sacred." A pretty good way to go, I guess.
This is a very big book of very depressing stories. Read it in small doses. The stories themselves are mixed, and range from classics that I'm glad to finally have a legal copy of (like Ursula le Guin's "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas"--any thinking, literate, even moderately leftish person should read this story at some point in their lives) to duds (Orson Scott Card is not a bad writer but his story in this collection, about an unfixable plague that reduces human life expectancy to the early-mid twenties as a biospheric reaction to what people have done to the planet, just doesn't work). Fortunately there were enough good stories from new-to-me authors to justify reading through the whole thing, front to back, in fifteen-minute lunch-break increments. "Red Card," "Amaryllis," "Dead Space for the Unexpected," "Jordan's Waterhammer" and "Resistance" were stand-outs.