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Year's Best SF 16 (2011)

by David G. Hartwell(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062035894 (ISBN13: 9780062035899)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins e-books

series

Year's Best SF

review 1: A mixed bag. Some of the stories I enjoyed greatly while others were a slog. I guess that's the way with a short story collection; in including a variety of SF stories something is bound not to appeal to me. That being said most of the stories were good. Special mention goes to "To Hie from Far Cilenia" which I quite enjoyed, both story wise and for the ideas on how near future technology and society may develop.
review 2: I enjoyed two stories: Cat Valente's "How to Become a Mars Overlord" (A+) and Sean McMullen's "Eight Miles" (B+). I thought the stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Damien Broderick, Karl Schroeder, and Paul Park were interesting but a little too thin (Hoffman), too dream-like and slippery (Park), too familiar from other recent SF (Schroeder)... more, and too New Wave / 60s cliché (Broderick). The rest I could do without entirely: very dull, too familiar, and overly reliant on simplistic hooks/gotchas/allegories/morals. less

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