Off Limits

The Reality Tripby Robert Silverberg ★★★☆☆ “She is a cosmic nuisance, but I fear I’m getting to like her.” Part meaningful story of loneliness, part SNL skit, I burst out laughing at least twice. Maybe I’m an asshole and I should have seen the despair in more even terms but deep levels of crazy am......more

Anthologies are a tricky thing to touch for anybody, especially reviewers. The quote, "One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel," applies to many anthologies I have read. When reviewing anthologies, it would be realistic for me to judge the stories on an individual basis. Trust me, reality does ensu......more

The audiobook reader mispronounces soooooooo many things.......more

This is part of my roster of books acquired in Seattle (I bought a reasonable bunch of them, which makes me think I should create a list form them). I wanted to read it for a long time now, but it was worth the wait. Since the first story, Robert Silverberg's The Reality Trip, to the last (and delig......more

The second instalment of short stories under this title. Perhaps not quite as good as the first one, but there are a few that are well worth buying the book. I read the poem "Eaten: Scenes from a Moving Picture", by Neil Giaman, in a college speech class. I think I almost got kicked out of the unive......more