SOURCE: Seaman, Donna. Review of Greetings from Earth, by Scott Bradfield. Booklist 92, no. 14 (15 March 1996): 1239.

In the following review, Seaman cites Greetings from Earth as a collection of stories “of our time, sharp-edged yet seething with ambiguity.”

Bradfield's novels, including Animal Planet, veer toward the anarchistic. In his meticulously structured, high-voltage, surprising short stories [Greetings from Earth,] he explores the more instinctive, less “civilized” aspects of our enigmatic natures. Bradfield is a virtuoso of dialogue and a connoisseur of personality, and his narrators are steeped in stress, from the homicidal jilted lover in “Sweet Ladies, Good Night, Good Night,” to the brooding loner in “The Wind Box,” and the little girl who can't speak in “Closer to You.” These are very much tales of our time, sharp-edged yet seething with ambiguity.