A review by jandi
Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction by Jetse de Vries

2.0

There were some stories that I really enjoyed. "The Church of Accelerated Redemption" had an interesting premise (although the motivations of the protagonist made me cringe). "The Solnet Ascendancy" was funny and kind of uplifting. "Scheherazade Cast in Starlight" packed a lot of punch in a few words. Some of the stories I just couldn't get into. "Sarging Rasmussen... " really annoyed me with its attempt to disguise misogyny as social engineering. And most stories were not particularly optimistic, well, at least not my definition of it.

I'm not sure I would call this science fiction either - while most of the stories include some level of tech, for the most part, it is just a natural evolution of what we have today. I don't think my SF loving husband would be drawn to it.