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Admirably peculiar story ideas
Author Thomas Pierce falls loosely into the "zany short story writer" category, in that many of his stories revolve around bizarre concepts such as a TV show that creates living clones of ancient extinct animals ("Shirley Temple Three") and a woman who lives out an entire, detailed parallel life in the world of a continuing dream ("The Real Alan Gass"). The unique element of Pierce's stories is that he takes these alternate realities and makes everything else about them seem relatively ordinary, including the characters (people with problems), settings, and plot points. While I generally appreciated the writing, it was a bit difficult for me to settle on a final star-rating for Hall of Small Mammals. I wanted to give Pierce extra credit for his creativity and skill, but was less than satisfied by the story endings, many of which were annoyingly enigmatic or arbitrary. (Yes, I know, authors should be allowed to do that, plus the short story form often makes...
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