There are some amazing stories in here. This volume, something that I found in a used bookshop in Ann Arbor a couple months back, was put together in 1984 by Damon Knight (at the time still the leader and grandfather of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop) to celebrate up-and-coming writers who had passed through Clarion. Some of the contributors -- Lucius Shepard, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dean Wesley Smith -- have done well for themselves in the genre and genre community, as Knight hoped they would, and others have not; even with fame and genre reputation aside, however, there is great value in this volume of diverse stories. Not all are science fiction, not all are fantasy -- some are neither -- but all are worth reading at least once.