You never know from one story to the next what kind of strange and interesting people inhabit these other countries and other worlds. Among the most creative stories: a man copes with his life as a werewolf; a woman finds a new friend on a tropical island; a timid man inspired by his dead brother’s spirit explores the wild life; and a woman seeks revenge for her lesbian lover’s murder.

Although the stories in Other Countries/Other Worlds will surely delight sci-fi and fantasy readers, the book is marred by many dozens (perhaps hundreds) of distracting spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and typographical errors, beginning in the first sentence of the first page of the introduction. One particularly disturbing mistake for Trekkers is contained in the story "How I Found Love and Saved Our World from Alien Colonization," in which an homage to Star Trek repeatedly refers to the series as Startrek. Otherwise, the book is a thoroughly enjoyable read.