an amusing tale… well told and entertaining.

Quite entertaining

lucky homicide… Very much behaving tale… that laugh glorious aloud!

poignant without being cheesy… quite funny

I hope for more stories about this couple.

The short, seemingly only loosely linked events … actually all flow together nicely in retrospect, just as events aren’t always visibly linked in the real world except in hindsight.

another charming tale about Gus and Jessie and their adventures in genetic engineering. I hope they give us more of these.

Gus and Jessie are engaging characters, and the scientific issues they deal with are intriguing.

In the modern day, it is difficult to make a big game hunter, especially one who is hunting endangered species, sympathetic, but David Bartell manages to do so in “Misquoting the Moon.” With the early revelation that the Earth is about to be destroyed and only a limited number of people will be able to be saved, Bartell is able to turn the reader’s attention away from the idea of hunting a species to extinction and instead focus on the relationship between his hunter, Ted Hathaway, and Ted’s friend and guide, Hendrik Izaaks. This relationship plays out well as it becomes apparent that Ted has a means of saving himself from the destruction of the Earth, but Hendrik and his family are fated for the doom so many humans will face. While the story comes to a satisfying conclusion, it also raises questions, not of ethics, but rather more practical considerations, which might be interesting for Bartell to explore in a sequel.

...a nice little tale about how to save a little of a world that is about to be destroyed.

"Misquoting the Moon" had the greatest emotional impact that I can ever remember from a short story in any genre...."wow".... I was really moved by this piece.