Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's "e;Triceratops Summer,"e; which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's "e;Bliss,"e; an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues, like Mary Rosenblum's "e;Search Engine,"e; which extrapolates today's technology to chilling, Big Brotherly results. The long closing story, Alastair Reynolds's "e;Understanding Space and Time,"e; however, presents a ray of cosmic hope: the sole survivor of a plague that decimated humanity is rescued and healed by intergalactic entities and lives out millennia while seeking ultimate truths, returning to see...
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