Solid! Bruce Sterling's quite fun when he gets his engines going in the right direction.

The later shorts are all in the same universe and tie in together with cross-over characters; I enjoyed them immensely. That is: Deep Eddy (the concept of the Wende!), Bicycle Repairman (v good), and Taklamakan (climbing-focused sci-fi, v good).

Weakest of the collection was Sacred Cow; it didn't do anything for me.