Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazar... Book

I've loved works by all three of these authors. Unfortunately if someone takes this an example of what they wrote, they'll be awfully disappointed, especially if all they know is the best of modern SF. The Sturgeon doesn't even feel like it's written by him, with no weirdness, no thoughfulness, none of his 'voice.' He started to try to do something with pacifism, but never got anywhere that makes sense... reads like a draft that escaped. The Simak's not bad, but long-winded and not too different from better explorations of a similar motif (it's a motif he comes back to often.) The Leinster, too, needs serious cutting, could have been told in about 3 pp.

Do learn what a community chest is, why a newspaperman would have to write articles about it for a small-city rag, and why he'd prefer not to.

I am reminded to make sure I have Leinster's The Runaway Skyscraper on my to-read list.

I did like this line from the Leinster: "[I]nvasion in force of a province emptied for its occupation had a flavor of the absurd which was not in the least amusing."
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Accidentally reread Jan 2021 - I did understand a bit more of the first story, and appreciated the others a bit more, so, um, 2.5 stars rounded down.