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This was an excellent collection of short fiction by Ted Chiang. Probably my favorite is "Seventy-Two Letters," about an alternate history of a society based around the idea that golems can actually be made. Really, there were no stories I didn't like in this collection. Many of Chiang's ideas seem to come simply from positing, What if...? and running with it in delightfully thoughtful and philosophical directions. - What if the Tower of Bablyon reached up and found a solid sky that could be tunneled through? - What if angelic visitations happened regularly and left terrible mutations as well as miracles? - What if a mathematical proof could be found that proved everything you knew about math was wrong? - What if we could turn off the visual cues that allows you to tell whether someone is attractive or unattractive? It's been a while since I read a sci-fi collection this solidly interesting. Two thumbs up!