I've finished the first two books in this collection and am grimly plowing my way through the third, but I may not finish it. There is nothing in these stories but hard science. There certainly aren't any plots, characterizations, or tension worth reading about--nothing but "ooh, we have a mystery, here's the process of how we solve it." Snore. (And like other reviewers here, I figured out the big revelations right off the bat, and then I got impatient with the characters for taking so bloody long to come to the same conclusions.) The Ganymeans might as well be humans for all the "alien behavior" they display. Big Moments are met with so little emotion by all the characters that one wonders if these people are really androids. ...