I was tickled to see this review come up in the blogs I follow! Thank you for reviewing it. I read it earlier this summer, and both enjoyed and didn't enjoy it, for all the reasons you mention. As an anthology of sci fi short stories from around the world, I loved it. Looking at it from that context, it was really interesting to read what's being done around the world instead of my sort of microcosm of US-english-language sf.

Thank you for reviewing it. I do recommend people read this book, if only to get a taste of what ELSE is out there.