A review by valhecka
Fierce Reads: Kisses and Curses by Various
3.0
The stories are fine - although I didn't read all of them, as the authors noted when a short/deleted scene/excerpt would spoil the main books. The authors' notes/explanations are generally clever. I got a good sense of who I want to read: Rutkoski, Mathieu, Alameda, McBride, Smith, O'Brien, Brody. Less impressed with Kelly, Finn, Aguirre, and Banks/Laybourne (although their short was adorable), and of course it's too late to regret reading Albin.
(Although the prequel short she contributed did show that I'm right in scientist-namedrop being outright wrong in the fictional implementation of reality construction and manipulation relying on string theory, considering that the first elaboration of any theory representing physical forces specifically as oscillating strings was published by Nambu, Nielsen, and Susskind in 1969, a good fifteen years after namedrop had kicked it. In the first half of the '40s, physics was either the Manhattan Project or defending your honor regarding your choice not to be at Los Alamos. Or, as Einstein was doing, trying and failing miserably to convince politicians and generals that nuclear armament would be an unqualified disaster. Which latches neatly into the short by Lindsay Smith as a prequel to [b:Sekret|15673520|Sekret (Sekret, #1)|Lindsay Smith|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372782569s/15673520.jpg|21330653]...)
(Although the prequel short she contributed did show that I'm right in scientist-namedrop being outright wrong in the fictional implementation of reality construction and manipulation relying on string theory, considering that the first elaboration of any theory representing physical forces specifically as oscillating strings was published by Nambu, Nielsen, and Susskind in 1969, a good fifteen years after namedrop had kicked it. In the first half of the '40s, physics was either the Manhattan Project or defending your honor regarding your choice not to be at Los Alamos. Or, as Einstein was doing, trying and failing miserably to convince politicians and generals that nuclear armament would be an unqualified disaster. Which latches neatly into the short by Lindsay Smith as a prequel to [b:Sekret|15673520|Sekret (Sekret, #1)|Lindsay Smith|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372782569s/15673520.jpg|21330653]...)