@gregeganSF

It seems to me that your fiction used to be more hopeful about outcomes (e.g. Clockwork Rocket, Reasons to be Cheerful, or Bit Players had endings with mostly-universally-hopeful outcomes, esp. in comparison with e.g. Perihelion Summer, Solidity, or Light Up The Clouds). However, when I tried to see whether my impression is actually correct, I failed to confirm it (by trying to compare set of stories from older and newer compilations).

I wonder whether you think this impression has a basis in reality, and if so, whether this is an intentional change.