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I enjoyed a lot of the stuff in Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate Stories, the companion short-story tie-in volume to his Machineries of Empire series, but I'll be honest, the thing I was most excited for was the novella "Glass Cannon" involving a sad immortal Frankenteen from the third book of the trilogy who got an extremely rum deal, and for whom I was hoping to see slightly better things.

( Spoilers! )

All that said, the greatest moment for me in the book as a whole was the short story involving ritual combat via specialized designer pathogens, which provided the opportunity for the immortal line "Whether due to precautions or pure luck, no one else came down with the duel."