RM AmbroseBesprekingen

Vital contains 14 quite varied sf stories with medical themes.
Most of them are fairly easy-going to read. Some are by famous authors, a couple by authors I wasn't familiar with.
On the whole I enjoyed this collection a lot, though there were 2 stories I really couldn't get into.

TOC:
- "When Robot and Crow saved East St. Louis" by Annalee Newitz (****)
- "Carriers" by Tananarive Due (****)
- "The Giving Plague" by David Brin (***)
- "Grains of Wheat" by Alex Shvartsman (*****)
- "One Widow's Healing" by Sally Wiener Grotta (***)
- "Second Generation" by Julie Novakova (****)
- "The Algorithm will see you now" by Justin C. Key (****)
- "Sea Changes" by Lola Robles (*)
- "Welcome to the medical clinic at the Interplantery Relay Station | Hours Since The Last Patient Death: 0" by Caroline M. Yoachim (****)
- "A Passing Sickness" by Paolo Bacigalupi (***)
- "Color the World" by Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu (**)
- "Fish Dance" by Eric Schwitzgebel (*)
- "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly (***)
- "Treatment Plan" by Seanan McGuire (****)