Five the hard way: Grading this one is hard. Per se I am suspect on anthologies. Quality tends to be uneven. The nominal thyme or unifying principle tends to be honored in the breach. So I start at 4 stars instead of 5. I would normally drop this by 2 stars for cheating and putting in a super heroes story. I’ll only drop it 1 as once I got past being cheated by a genre I prefer not to buy it wasn’t bad. So we would be at 3 except two stories [TEN RULES FOR BEING AN INTERGALACTIC SMUGGLER and War Dog] are excellent. One, MORRIGAN IN THE SUNGLARE, is off the charts good. So good I regard the book as underpriced just for the joy of having had the chance to read this. So I get to 5 but I am mostly complaining about a story that may not offend you [supers are quite popular these days but not my bag] and mostly raving about three stories [many people grade anthologies by worst or averages and there are a bunch of 3’sand 4’s as well as the three star turns]. So YMMV. ( )