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The Very Best Of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009)

by Gordon Van Gelder(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1892391910 (ISBN13: 9781892391919)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tachyon Publications

review 1: I checked this out mainly because it has Ray Bradbury's famous short story "All Summer in a Day," which was my first contact with his work when I was in G&T classes in 3rd grade. After his death, I wanted to share the story with my sons, and was delighted to find it still as poignant and incisive as ever. But the many other stories in this volume came as a wonderful surprise, and it contains works by authors I've read extensively without having come across these particular stories before, such as Neil Gaiman.
review 2: Given what the editor had to work with, a surprisingly mediocre collection. Although it does have two heartbreaking masterpieces in Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" and Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon", you also get dated pieces from Rog... moreer Zelazny and Alfred Bester, and Van Gelder includes Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" along with Michael Swanwick's very similar piece, "Mother Grasshopper." Still lots of wonderful stories in this volume's nearly 500 pages, but it could have been so much more. less

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