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I found myself liking this not at all. The stories blended into one another, felt formulaic and pointless. Lovecraftian doom, purple prose, insinuations of great revelations which never come ... Barron hadn't yet found himself, I think. But being a completionist, of course I had to read it as well.

Definitely a product of its time -- a bunch of short stories, where the protagonists are physics and general left-brain approach to problems. The writing is bare-bones, the characters are paper-thin, the politics are facepalmingly dated. My three stars are because I like physics in my sci-fi, but it's more like 2.5 stars really.

Picking up the first Isaiah Coleridge book, I could never have guessed stuff would escalate to this. But it's all good. Think I'm becoming a Laird Barron fan.