I came away from this feeling like I'd come out of a museum exhibit, or sampled a taster menu of sci-fi from the last fifty years. Some stories have been taken from the very first collection compiled for TLDV; many of the stories from its latter half were written in the last decade. Admittedly, I went in wondering when the 'big' sci-fi names would turn up, but I'm glad they didn't - they're raved about well enough. Everyone in here is dead good.