The Hugo winners Book

The only story I truly liked from this was The Word for World is Forest, but even that was flawed, too earnest, and too cliched (just once I'd like to see humans try to go all conquistador on natives that aren't small & cute & childlike).

'Eurema's Dam' was interesting. Parts of me made me think that if Albert had been named Steve, Mark, or Elon the author would have been truly prescient. "Nothing rises without a leaven, but the yeast is itself a fungus and a disease.... When there are no longer any deprived or insufficient, who will invent?"

A Song for Lya makes me wish Martin hadn't gotten involved in epic fantasy. I've no interest in his juggernaut, but this was good and so was Tuf Voyaging, imo. This has an interesting variant of a 'grok' thing going.

I tried to read almost everything, but of course there were a few I skipped because they were familiar from other anthologies. Which is good, because now it's off my shelf, and also I don't have to decide how to round 1.5 star rating because it's a DNF and I have a policy to avoid rating those.