I wanted to love this book. The explanation sounded awesome. And with four novellas I had four chances. Oddly enough the first (about the programmable toaster) was my favorite. It was quirky and brilliant. I imagined from the description of the superhero novella that I’d love it; I hated it. The cancer terrorist novella had potential but fizzled and seemed to limp to an ending. Then lastly, the novella about the end of the world just seemed pointless and sad. Averaged together: one brilliant, one terrible, and two middling; I thought that garnered three out of five stars.