The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales

In the longest story in
this collection, an eleven-year-old girl has a strange adventure in an
overgrown garden, and probably saves the world from a fate worse than
any conventional apocalypse. Her parents would undoubtedly think that
she’s been dreaming if she attempted to explain what had happened, but
that’s what parents do, because they think it’s what they ought to do.
The other stories all describe similarly equivocal victories, which
sometimes don’t appear to the other characters in the stories to be
victories at all—but they are: every last one of them. You just have to
look at them the right way—and it really is worth doing that? After all,
who among us really wants to get stuck in the way things want to seem?

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  The Best of Both Worlds • (2008) • short story by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  The Highway Code • (2009) • novelette by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  Captain Fagan Died Alone • [Challenge Chaos] • (1976) • short story by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  The Face of an Angel • (2002) • novelette by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  Vesterhen • short fiction by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  The Bad Seed • (1994) • short story by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  The Man Who Came Back • (1966) • short story by
  Brian Stableford
  
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  Appearances • (2009) • short fiction by
  Brian Stableford

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