What I like best about Allen Steele's writing is especially evident in this collection: he has a journalist's eye for detail. When I read these stories, I feel like I dropped a few years into the future and now I'm watching the evening news. He was there; he's reporting it as fact. They're fiction stories, written in a nonfiction writing style that makes you want to check out your window just to be sure your current car is still there in the driveway, no more rusted than it was before.