An enjoyable enough collection, chosen for me to read by my fiancee months ago and abandoned until now.

Not quite my cup of tea, perhaps I'm not such a fan of Hard SF as I thought or those particular stories didn't quite strike me happy. Even so, interesting reads.
My particular favourites? The Ziggurat by jene Wolfe, Coming of Age in Karhide by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Hot Times in Magma City by Robert Silverberg.