Book Log 17/2014 - Karen Traviss: View of a Remote Country

[jacey]

I really admire Karen Traviss' writing and so the opportunity to revisit some of her early short stories in this book was not to be missed. Thirteen short stories including some classics such as 'Suitable for the Orient' and 'Does he take Blood?', and my personal favourite, 'Evidence' which is the powerful tale of how an  archaeologist interprets/misinterprets the evidence in the find of an alien burial on a remote planet, with particularly devastating consequences. All the pieces have speculative fiction content, mostly science fiction, some of it social, some of it alt-historical, some of it alien/extra-terrestrial and (unusual for Traviss) a smattering of fantasy. All of it speculative in the widest sense of the term.

Highly recommended.