Rollerball MurderMy rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was debating two or three stars, but looking back at my reading notes, I realized that two of the stories demanded that I give it the higher mark. I really enjoyed The Hermit (1968), probably my favorite piece in this collection of short stories. A well-developed story of two private men who hide themselves from the outside world. I also enjoyed The Good Ship Erasmus (1971), an intriguing story of a man surreptitiously selling cigarettes aboard a quit-smoking cruise. Many of the other stories felt too short to fully develop their ideas. There were nuggets and neat ideas raised, but more in an outline format rather than developed

The book is definitely dark, which is fun for me at times. But it’s also very violent, including murder, assault and rape. It’s also definitely sexist, with woman being one-dimensional characters composed of breasts, waists and little else.