An interesting collection for me. The stories are a mixed bag, with some very good ones in there. What I found most interesting is that almost all these voices are new to me. I've read a lot of short story anthologies and nowadays usually only find a couple of new authors in each, if that. In this case, there are only three that I've encountered before. There's quite a few of them whose work I would love to find more of.

Names and authors follow, with notes (without spoilers) on some but not all of the stories.

Blue Limbo - Terence Green

A near-future cop story in a Canadian city. People can get raised from the dead - but just for 4 weeks. Enough time to name their killers.

The Letter - Andrew Weiner

A twist on the idea of someone who has access to future newspapers and uses them to make a killing on the stock market. Our protagonist here chose a slightly different angle, and the author also chooses an unexpected resolution. Better than average.

The Newest Profession - Phyllis Gotlieb

The story of women who make their living via surrogate pregnancies. But not of the sort of babies most of us have encountered. The company exploits them, but some justice is done. This story crams a lot of character and emotion into a few pages, along with a very original premise.

Letters Home - G.M. Cunningham

Young men about to go to war through the ages write home. A familiar tale, until the last.

The end is meant to shock, and perhaps it did when it was written. But it has no impact now, at least for this reader.

The Price Of Land - Monica Hughes

Climate change is making the life of these farmers harder, but the taxes don't go away. The story turns on a new solution the government is offering to those facing hard times.

The premise isn't at all new, but this is one of the better explorations of it.

The Falafel is Better In Ottawa - Jean-Louis Trudel

A story that seems to be a retread of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" until the final moments, when it brings something new to the tale.

Scenes From Successive Futures - Tom Marshall

Life in a post-apocalyptic Dome city isn't what it seems to be. A good idea, but it fizzles somewhat at the end.

In His Moccasins - H.A. Hargreave

A future Edmonton uses lots of technology to control criminals. And some sadism.

The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery - Katherine Govier

Sandro runs a photography studio in Toronto, popular with the Italian community. He's been doing it long enough now that people are sometimes finding that the family pictures that made them happy aren't so happy any more - people fall out with each other and we don't always want to be reminded of them by seeing them gazing out of the wedding picture. Sandro gets good at it - in the darkroom, with scissors and negatives, for this in the days before digital image editing. Eventually his editing gets more substantial.

A mood piece - effective, but we know where it's generally going.

Living In Cities - Candas Jane Dorsey

A future Toronto is now a heritage museum for visitors from elsewhere, and here.

Memoirs of the Renaissance - Douglas Fetherling

The Weighmaster of Flood - Eileen Kernaghan

What Mrs Felton Knew - Timothy Findlay

Outport - Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Greenhouse - Geoffrey Ursell ( )