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Read this months ago, but there was one story ("If You Take My Meaning") that I set aside because the intro said it was a spoiler for "The City in the Middle of the Night", which I hadn't read yet. Well, partway through City in the Middle of the Night, I remembered having read "If You Take My Meaning" a while back, probably in a magazine or anthology. I'm not sure if I realized at the time that it was kind of a sequel.

So I got to reread the short story with a new understanding, which was cool!

The memoirs of Garak, narrated by Garak! Need I say more?

My next knitting audiobook

The one story I haven't read yet is "If You Take My Meaning", which has a spoiler warning for "City in the Middle of the Night". Will revisit it once I've read the latter!

Listening to this on audiobook while knitting

Re-reading this to refresh my memory before I read the sequel.

I think I heard about this anthology from an issue of Lightspeed. There are some great stories in here. The overall theme is when a mission or task goes wrong and the stakes are raised to a matter of survival. Think of the Apollo 13 flight or the film "Gravity" for example - although not all the stories in this collection are set in space. There are fifteen short stories in all.

There's an impressive variety - different kinds of plots, settings, narrative structures and so on, but each story fits with the theme.

Naturally, suspense is a common element here, and a lot of the stories feel like thrillers.

I think this took me a while because while I enjoy thrillers/suspense every so often, I maybe don't have the appetite for lots of thrillers back to back.