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<p>'This is an interesting and varied collection with which I was very impressed. A lot of which would actually make good longer stories. On occasion the author provides a brief introduction to a story that allows a glimpse into the writing process i.e. ‘Prologue’, an experiment written with a novel in mind; ‘The Earth’s True Children’. With ‘Silk’ there are two versions, the shorter of which I think loses something in the trimming.<br /> As for the other stories, I thought ‘The Grief of Lawrence Gould’ and ‘Masks’ were very good and thought provoking, but perhaps a bit wordy in places. ‘Through the Eyes of a Child’: hard-hitting and the shortest short story I’ve ever read. However, by far the best and worth the purchase alone is ‘Hideous Humanity’, a brilliant, caustic rant, detailing the slow and inevitable decline of a perfectly normal everyday man as he rails against the stupidity, banality and fading morality that we are all faced with day after day. It gripped me, made me laugh out loud, made me think. I truly hope the author writes the next instalment. Well worth reading' - John Prentice</p>