What a great reminder of what great science fiction is all about. The stories written by Nathaniel Halpern focus on what matters: the people. For so long we marvelled on the gadgets, entranced in the lasers and the machines and the doom that may come from making our robots too smart. Tales from the Loop (based on the uncanny paintings of Simon Stålenhag) shifts that perspective and places it upon the residents of this 80s-like small American town where technology is part of the background, as natural as the next tree or snow field. These are real stories.