Both say right away: if you did not like the Horde or the shutter outside the area you're going to hate this collection of stories. Damasio pushes his style to the extreme, sometimes too far to lose us, some new are quite opaque due to a more than confusing syntax. But when it works, when everything starts to come to life before our eyes is absolutely great. He has the gift of making poetic pitches very simple, make a visceral SF or fantasy plot. A great artist of the French language. It's almost frustrating that some news is so short, we would want to see the adapted novel, they develop over the universe and characters. But do not choosy, Damasio is a rare author and demanding, it delivers us the account drop these writings and this collection lets enjoy between two reinterpretations of these novels.