Exploring New Places takes the concept of exploration as the central theme and shows a good variety of short stories centered around this. There are a good few space exploration stories that make up the majority of the content but that's not all that's on display. And as such, you get to experience different takes on what exploration means to the writers. The stories in this anthology were more mixed for me. A good amount of them have strong ties to the theme and make good use of it. Some of them, however, don't feel as strong in comparison. Worth mentioning that reading the short story version of Beyond Acacia Ridge was compelling enough to get me to check out the novella version.
- Michael Miele