Isis's Reviews > Stories of Your Life and Others

As usual with a collection, I loved some stories and was meh on others. My favorites were the ones that started from the assumption that some earlier conception of the world was literally true: that heaven and hell (and God and angels) literally exist("Tower of Babylon" and "Hell is the Absence of God"), or that golems and homunculi (the miniature fully-formed humans that were thought to exist in sperm) literally exist ("Seventy-Two Letters"). I felt that all these stories were less emotionally involving than I prefer (other than perhaps "Tower of Babylon", which was probably my favorite), and all of them, except for maybe the three-page "The Evolution of Human Science", were too long.

I really enjoyed the author's notes at the end, especially those for "Seventy-Two Letters".