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A review by octavia_cade
Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey
3.0
The problem with assessing short story collections is one of averages. I quite enjoyed some of the stories in here, though they're clearly a product of their time. Taken together, it's come out as an ok collection for me. Glad to have read it, but I wouldn't reread.
Bar the utterly distasteful "Thorns" which relies on the ever-offensive "rape as turn-on" trope, it's the stories that seem to have spun off into series that got the most reaction from me. In two cases (Pern and the Tower series) this was positive. The final story, though, "Honeymoon", which ended up in the Brainship series, was pretty dire. Oddly, I remember reading that series when I was young and enjoyed it, so either my tastes have changed or "Honeymoon" was a low point.
Bar the utterly distasteful "Thorns" which relies on the ever-offensive "rape as turn-on" trope, it's the stories that seem to have spun off into series that got the most reaction from me. In two cases (Pern and the Tower series) this was positive. The final story, though, "Honeymoon", which ended up in the Brainship series, was pretty dire. Oddly, I remember reading that series when I was young and enjoyed it, so either my tastes have changed or "Honeymoon" was a low point.