MixedI read it and reviewed it. It's pretty middling. Some of them are good, some of them not so good... Dodkin's Job and Gift of Gab are great... Gift of Gab is the best one.
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Dust of Far Suns (1981)
Others: Mixed A short story collection originally published as Future Tense by one of SF's greatest authors, Jack Vance. Contents: - Dust of Far Suns (1962) - Dodkin's Job (1959) - Ullward's Retreat (1958) - The Gift of Gab (1955)
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