The SF Site's Seamus Sweeney gives Love in Vain a pretty impressive review.

Ticonderoga Publications have produced a beautiful limited edition paperback of Lewis Shiner's 1997 collection. These are great stories, ranging over genres and locations with admirable disdain for the artificial boundaries that disfigure literature. To use one of the great clichés, there is something for everyone. More accurately, there are multiple stories to suit multiple tastes.

You can read the full review here: http://www.sfsite.com/11a/lv331.htm

Lewis Shiner

Lewis Shiner's acclaimed collection, featuring the best stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning writer. This edition includes two novellas previously uncollected in the sold out Subterranean Press edition.

Introduction by James P. Blaylock.

Contents

Perfidia*
Love in Vain (read online here)
His Girlfriend's Dog
White City
Language
Mystery Train
The War At Home
Kidding Around
Steam Engine Time (read online here)
Scales
Wild For You
Sticks (read online here)
Match (read online here)
Oz
Gold
Secrets
Jeff Beck
The Best Part of Making Up
Dirty Work
Flagstaff (read online here)
The Tale of Mark the Bunny (read online here)
Primes*
Castles Made of Sand (read online here)

*This edition also includes the novelette "Primes" and novella "Perfidia”.

Editions

Limited Hardcover Edition, 26 copies signed by all contributors. RRP $75 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-9-6. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Regular Trade Edition. RRP $30 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-0-5