Tailored Realities

 Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson, 428 pages.

This short-fiction collection contains the non-Cosmere short stories and novellas from Brandon Sanderson's entire writing history. Because these are the works that don't fit in his very wide fantasy universe, most of the stories here are science fiction. It is interesting to have a collection like this that contains as many novellas as short stories, and it gives the stories a lot of time to breathe. I also really enjoyed that every story was followed by a postscript that talked about both the story's inspirations and its publishing history. The novella "Perfect State" was a particular standout to me. I wasn't quite as impressed by this collection as his Cosmere universe short fiction collection, but I'm also a bigger fantasy fan than science fiction. This collection is still definitely worth a read.