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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Sharyn McCrumb, Rob Rogers, Tony Pi, John Joseph Adams, H.Paul Jeffers, Mary Robinette Kowal, Chris Roberson, Dominic  Green, Barbara Roden, Amy Myers, Mark Valentine, Bradley H. Sinor, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert J. Sawyer, Vonda I never know how to rate anthologies, maybe I should have rated each story separately and calculated the average. The result would probably be just about 3,5, with the stories ranging from uninspired and contrived to various degrees of amazing. For the most part, the big names lived up to my expectations (Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman), but there was also the occasional disappointment (Naomi Novik), several pleasant surprises and discoveries (Sharyn McCrumb, Tony Pi, Mark Valentine), stories I forced my way through rather than read and some where I just didn't care one way or another. Still, rounding up the score for the concept itself and the exercise in imagining Holmes dragged out of his element (the Cthulhu stories, for one, were uniformly fantastic).