More Words, Deeper Hole

I actually own a copy of The Craft of Science Fiction, picked up in a used book store long ago. I imagine I even read it at some point, although none of it was striking enough to remember. The list of contributors has a fairly large overlap with the one under review, with Katherine MacLean replacing Anne McCaffrey as the token woman, writing on "Alien Minds and Nonhuman Intelligences" (implications left to the reader). It also features Jerry Pournelle on "The Construction of Believable Societies" (involuntary shudder).