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Year's Best SF 15 (2010)

by David G. Hartwell(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061721751 (ISBN13: 9780061721755)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harper Voyager

series

Year's Best SF

review 1: This is a solid collection with few really standout stories--on the whole, the stories are notable for the variety of science fictional ideas/settings applied rather than compelling writing or emotional impact. Some exceptions include "Donovan Sent Us," by Gene Wolfe, Robert Charles Wilson's "This Peaceable Land," and "The Calculus Plague" by Marisa Lingen. Unlike most of the others, these stories lingered in my mind for some time.
review 2: I have enjoyed several installments of this series over the years. While I certainly don't love every story selected, I find that the editors do a great job of capturing the wide variety of science fiction out there while avoiding stories that are really just some other genre (mystery, Western, romance) set on another plane... moret or in the future. My only complaint is about the inclusion of several alternate-history pieces. I grudgingly admit that this type of speculative fiction is closer to science fiction than to fantasy, but most of it has precious little to do with science beyond the theoretical idea that in a multiple-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics these histories might be possible. Oh well, other people probably like those stories better than the hard SF that I prefer. That's what makes the anthology so pleasing. less

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