Book #216 of 2021: Jews Versus Zombies edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene I like this short story collection marginally better than its sister volume on extraterrestrials — my individual ratings average to 3.25 out of five stars this time, an improvement on my previous 2.5 — but it’s still a decidedly mixed bag …
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Book #189 of 2021: Jews Versus Aliens edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene I’m sadly underwhelmed by this #ownvoices short story collection, most of which falls far shy of its potential to tell exciting science-fiction from a specifically Jewish perspective. Of the ten entries herein, I’d give a few of them passing grades — …
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