Bland collection that seems to be stuck in a parochial 1950s America mindset, even though they were written from the 1980's onward. ( )

I picked this book out because of the story about the dodos. It's the best story of the whole book. ( )

I came across one of these stories in another anthology and immediately wanted to read more. Waldrop seems sort of like a combination of George Saunders, Richard Brautigan and the Twilight Zone, and (judging from this collection) he seems to write a lot of alt-histories. This book has afterwords by the author for each story, and at first I found his liberal use of italics kind of irritating, but then I decided it was very charming (possibly because in the afterword for "Wild, Wild Horses" he says that he doesn't really like fantasy, so when he got an idea for a fantasy story he was disappointed. Then he decided it would be ok to write a fantasy as long as it was a fantasy story as if it were happening to truck drivers.). I will definitely be tracking down more of Waldrop's work. ( )

http://tallgeesew.blogspot.com/2007/06/things-recently-read.html ( )

The stories were interesting, but I somehow didn't find myself thinking of them after I had read them. ( )