Greg L.  Johnson gives The Starry Rift a good review at SF Site.  He says:

Another way The Starry Rift connects to science fiction’s past is in its size and variety of stories. The Starry Rift is just the kind of big collection that you used to find tucked away on the shelves of the local library, with each story a door into another universe of imagination and wonder. With any luck, that’s just the kind of experience that The Starry Rift will provide for the young readers of today.

Tricia Sullivan is the author of nine novels, most recently Double Vision and Sound Mind. Her story “Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome” appears in The Starry Rift.

1. When did you start reading science fiction? How old were you, and can you remember the first book or story that really excited you as a reader?

I read DUNE when I was around 12, but it was Arthur C. Clarke’s CHILDHOOD’S END that really impressed me when I was around 13 or 14. I’d read a lot of alternate-world stuff (Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Anne McCaffrey). But CHILDHOOD’S END was the first book that really made me think about our world from a completely new perspective. I also read Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP because my parents said I was too young to see BLADE RUNNER (the movie based on the book). That was a major mindblower. I’ve never gotten tired of Dick.

2. What do you think science fiction has to offer young readers today?

Technology is changing our way of life so rapidly that it’s almost impossible to keep up with the leading edge. Science fiction is the literature that meets change head-on. It has a long tradition of exploring the boundaries of what it means to be a person. Young people are always testing those boundaries, and in particular young people today are facing possibilities and challenges that were never even imagined twenty years ago–except, maybe, in science fiction. Whether or not the technology in ‘hard’ science fiction stories ‘comes true’ doesn’t necessarily matter. Science fiction speaks directly to the blue sky thinking that older people tend to lose sight of. It’s about edges. That’s what being young is about, too.

3. Tell us about your story for The Starry Rift.

I had this idea of taking Greek champions and mapping star systems onto their bodies and then getting them to fight it out. Kind of a mental image of giant constellations battling one another. At first I thought it would be set on another planet, but whenever I sat down to write I ended up with…New Jersey, of all places. Go figure.

4. Did you find there was a real difference between writing for younger readers, or was your approach basically the same as when you’re writing for any other audience?

I realized I wasn’t going to get away with any postmodern hand-waving so I had to try to make the parameters of the story as concrete as I could. That was hard. Otherwise it was pretty much the same as any story.

5. What are you writing now? Is there something you’d recommend to readers who enjoyed your story in The Starry Rift?

I’m writing a science fiction novel called LIGHTBORN which is set in an American city where, thanks to a new self-improvement technology, all of the adults have gone nuts. I’d recommend my first novel, LETHE, to those who liked ‘Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome’.

Tricia Sullivan was born in New Jersey in 1968 and studied in the pioneering Music Program Zero program at Bard College. She later received a Master’s in Education from Columbia University and taught in Manhattan and New Jersey before moving to the UK in 1995. Her first novel, Lethe, was published that year, and was followed by science fiction novels Someone to Watch Over Me, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Dreaming in Smoke, and Y: A Chromosome. She has also written fantasy as Valery Leith, including The Company of Glass, The Riddled Night, and The Way of the Rose. Her most recent novels are Double Vision,  Maul, and Sound Mind.