"Embracing The Starlight" includes twelve of the very best fictions of Dave Smeds. Stories included in this volume are: Suicidal Tendencies, Fearless, A Wife of Acorn, Leaf, and Rain, The Eighth of December, Termites, A Raven On My Shoulder, Family Values, Cookie Jar, Sorceress of The Gulls, Foam, Short Timer, and Survior.
It wasn't just the first story that blew me away. -- Fraser Ronald, SF Reader
Embracing the Starlight displays a broad versatility of style and craft, always grounded in an emotional bedrock. -- Jay Lake, Tangent
Compare 'Survivor' to Gerald Kersh's 'Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo,' and you'll see that Smeds knows the field well, and isn't afraid to go head-to-head with the masters. -- Paul Di Filippo, scifi.com