pickA collection of 12 short stories from her Xuya universe and a novella and short story from her Dominion of the Fallen series.
I preferred the Xuya stories - there seemed to be too much background I was missing about the Dominion of the Fallen back story. The Xuya stories explored themes of mourning, memory, and cultural transmission in a fascinating if not always easy to follow way.
pickAliette de Bodard is one of the only authors who can make me enjoy space opera, and for that alone I would rate this collection highly, but I also really enjoyed every story in this. Perhaps a single author is the secret to anthologies of consistent quality? I probably won't learn from this, but I'll think about it every time I curse an anthology in the future.
It's maybe cheating to use this as W for #LitsyAtoZ but come on, "Of" doesn't count.
Do you ever buy a fancy edition of something and then not get around to reading it for four months? Oops. But at least I'm doing it now.
This book is strangely heavy for its size and I absolutely cannot figure out why.
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight | 
