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One terrible story and three OK ones
This is a collection of four science fiction short stories. The problem is that one of them is "do not read this" level awful...
Story one involves the development of a new nanotech brain augmentation system that lets people instantaneously record or acquire new knowledge or even worldviews. There's a theme of how this is going to affect minority cultures and whether it's possible to oppose the effective Westernisation and USification that "everybody learns everything by download of standard modules" seems to imply. It's a small scale story and I liked it: 4 stars.
Story two is the really bad one. Similar brain tech to story one, used experimentally in an attempt to rehabilitate somebody in prison for life for child sex abuse and murder. The problem is that the story is mostly told from the prisoner's viewpoint, so you spend a hundred pages in the guy's head hearing his justifications and his thoughts, including a ten page sequence where he recalls the crime that got him imprisoned. Plus the prison is based on the cliche view of a US prison and you have to read about the kinds of thing you'd expect to have happen to that kind of prisoner. The philosophical ideas about "why do we like and dislike what we do?" and the SF ideas are in my view nowhere near interesting enough to justify the author dragging readers through all this. 1 star.
Story three is an action thing set in various satellites and space stations. It felt a bit "James Bond in space" to me. It was rather heavy handed with the world building infodumps, which especially for a second language learner could have a lot of unknown vocab, and which ultimately mostly weren't all that critical to the plot. I felt it might have been better as an anime episode -- there were a couple of set piece sequences which I think would have benefitted from the visual impact of being able to see them unfolding rather than just having them be described; and it would have forced the author to cut out a lot of the infodumping... 3 stars.
Finally, story four is about nanorobot technology. This was OK, I guess, and avoided the pointless infodumps of the previous story, but ultimately it just didn't really grab me. 3 stars.
So overall I don't recommend this book, especially if like me you're the kind of completist who doesn't like skipping one story in an anthology.
Language wise there's a lot of SF/future tech vocab in there which pushes the difficulty level up.