W3 Women in Deep Time

Rating:
Summary: Nice collection
Review: This book is a collection of three previously released novellas by Greg Bear. The common thread of these stories is that they are told in the feminine voice. It is an excellent place to start if you are new to Bear or want to try his shorter writings. There isn't a miss of the three presented here. The only reason that I did not give this book 5 stars is that there are only three stories and it does not contain more. Of the three stories:

Hardfought is his Nebula award winning story of the engineering of human life to make a better soldier. The story bounces back and forth between the present of the story and its past until the reader understands the true situation.

Scattershot is about a space ship consisting of many pieces from different universes and the constant changing the ship is undergoing with the various crews trying to cope.

Sisters is my personal favorite of the three stories. It is about the unforseen consequences of human genetic engineering for trying to bring out the "best" traits. This story should be read by everybody that felt ugly in junior high school. Sometimes getting the best traits is not always a deal.

This book is nice read and should not be missed.