glass houses / stones

No names, no pack drill, but here's from a review of a friend's anthology that's just appeared on one of the sf sites:

If you want a change from Science Fiction and its grey cousins and love purple prose on more mundane subjects then [this anthology] will probably suit you. It's not as if any of the material isn't badly written just that for the most part, it isn't our genre or subject matter. There are some instances where the stories could have done with having done with having a bit more plot chucked at them but when they do, it's obvious the writers did their research to bring the material to life.

talking of reviews . . .

. . . I've just learnt that over the past couple of weeks D.F. Lewis has been publishing a story-by-story review of Andrew Hook's British Fantasy Award-winning 2003 anthology The Alsiso Project, in which I was lucky enough to make an appearance. Lewis's aim has been to see if a Gestalt might emerge from the stories -- all of which were written to the same title, which had originated as a typo, "alsiso", by writer Marion Arnott. A certain amount of cheating was allowed, probably the most extravagant corruption being "ALS 150" (Antony Mann). My own story was called "AlsisO", and in any reprinted version will probably be called "Alsis . . . O".

Whatever . . . Lewis is astonishingly kind about my contribution:

A tale of an I-protagonist/narrator who was last night someone's dream but cannot now die, i.e. a narrator who is an Alsis (acronym for which is spelt out in the story), eventually leading to that same dream's Otherwise.  [. . .] This story [. . .] is a compulsive, brilliantly written narrative tussling with the spectrum of Realities and Proustian selfness and more. [. . .] Bravo!