Liberation Day: Stories

Not bad, but not his best. Some of these stories feel like (inferior, and wearier) variations of similar ideas already used in previous stories. I still feel like CivilWarLand and Pastoralia are his best overall collections – though “CommComm” remains, for me, the pinnacle “just read this one” story to see what a great Saunders story is: inventive and disorienting, wicked and sharply funny, but also deeply empathetic and ultimately profound.