Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds
by Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois (Subterranean, 2014); audiobook read by various narrators (Blackstone, 2014)
Thirteen stories, four memoir pieces. The anthology starts strongly but loses its way as invited authors, eager to pay homage, craft exposition-laden tales that entirely fail to function as standalones. Tad Williams breaks the camel’s back with a spoofish, egregiously unfunny novella.