Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: bad stories from great writers

Although Asaro is one of my favorites in terms of enjoying the world and people she invents, she's not a world-class writer in terms use of language. She's an idea-centered rather than word-centered, if that makes any sense to you. This collection proves she's also not a good managing editor. It seems like each author sent in a story from their drawer of stuff-I-wrote-that-never-sold. And unfortunately Asaro accepted these terribly weak contributions by great names rather than prodding them to do better. I gamely tried to read each story, then gave up in disgust and gave the book away to a local charity.