Mseditor said that I'd probably enjoy these stories of science fiction.

From Publishers Weekly:
"Having cooked up a way of reconstituting the dead from their DNA to merge them with living humans, Scarborough (The Healer's War) gathered 14 fellow fantasy and SF writers to imagine the consequences."

See also:
- New Women of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent
- The Year's Best Fantasy 4

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I've started this book. The first story is a nice tale--both sensitive and at least marginally plausible--that explains how the process is discovered and how the discoverers plan to make it available without giving governments the chance to ban it.

The second story follows on its heels with the tale of the next person to undergo the process. It's very interesting and I look forward to the rest of the stories.

The stories are
- "Soulmates" by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- "A Rose with All Its Thorns" by Lillian Stewart Carl
- "Silver Lining" by Elizabeth Moon
- "Shell Game" by Margaret Ball
- "Renaissance Man" by Jerry Oltion
- "Luck of the Draw" by Thomas M. Knowles
- "Divine Guidance" by Sharon Newman
- "Voyage of Discovery" by Janet Berliner
- "Relics" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Knight Owl" by Carole Nelson Douglas
- "Who Am a Passer By" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "Forever Free" by Rod Garcia y Robertson
- "Stepping Up to the Plate" by Sandy Schofield
- "Sittin' on the Dock" by David Bischoff
... with Contributors' Notes at the end.

I put this aside for a while but re-read the stories and finished it today. It's interesting--but I'd put it on the "sensitive" rather than swashbuckling side of literature.

RELEASE NOTES:

Left with the hosts for other guests to read

An original idea, about the fallibility of longing. Is man doomed to vacillate in a state of unease and discontent, or would the ability to transpose the desirable qualities of others, of those we consider more exceptional than ourselves, would this possibility add meaning and joy to our lives?

The stories are too short to build any sort of character development, though that is not the point, but it would have been nice, since the idea is about character! Each tale has a sappy, happy ending.......no flip side!

So I dunno, read it, or be selective (I read all but the second last story, it seemed to drag on and my interested faltered) and pass it along, cause its a worthwhile time killer, I read it in between much duller midterm review literature :)

I.P.

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