About "UNITed We Fall" in Doctor Who: Decalog 3: Consequences:
"A nice romp, with the Brig[adier] coming across the best. Some of it seems to be an excuse for showing off New York, but it's written well, so hey, NY, NY!"
"Keith has done very much the right thing in joining the lone Fourth Doctor with a long retired Brigadier, thus dodging that continuity minefield that is UNIT chronology. In 'UNITed,' the Brigadier is summoned to America to justify British UNIT spending to a senior executive council -- now that's real terror. Meanwhile the Doctor roams the city of New York and runs into a terrorist whose plans he unwittingly foiled in the previous story. Keith's tale of vengeance, breakneck paced and populated by four magnificent central characters, is a little gem in Decalog 3's narrative chain."
"A real upturn from the book's first four stories, 'UNITed We Fall' is an amusing little story which is the first to realize it is a short story and make use of the form, rather than trying to be a two hundred and fifty page novel squeezed into thirty pages. The Fourth Doctor is captured expertly -- the first instance of good characterisation in Decalog 3 -- and the whole thing is just a lot of fun, even provoking a few proper belly laughs. Plotwise, there's not a lot to it, but that's really beside the point. It's enjoyable to read, and that's good enough for me."
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About "God Sins" in Magic: the Gathering: Distant Planes:
"A powerful wizard goes into retirement, but his neighbours regard him as a god. A very nice story, which shows that one simply has no peace as a God."
About "Improper Procedure" in The Ultimate Silver Surfer:
"Another well-written story, 'Improper Procedure' by GEnie's own Keith DeCandido features a well developed character, that of a police lieutenant who befriends the Surfer when the alien, not distinguishing NYC police uniforms from the thousands of strange clothes worn on this world, blasts a police officer who was trying to shoot a kidnapper. This story features a well thought out view of the Surfer's alieness -- of course he's claustrophobic in a New York City apartment, he lives in space-- and good use of humor."
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