Books by Jonathan Strahan
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review 1: As I have stated more than once in previous reviews, I am a great fan of short stories and they are one of the best means to experience unfamiliar authors. This anthology has a nice mix of the familiar & unfamiliar and most of the stories fit pretty well within my preferred sub-g...
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review 1: I skipped some stories because they didn't appeal but found many that really, really did. I hadn't given Holly Black any time after reading and disliking Tithe as a teenager, but her story was so good I'll be seeking out more of her stuff. I read the story because it was my only ...
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review 1: As with all short story collections, there is a mix of wonderful and wise and WTF. If you are skimming, my absolute, hands down favorites in the book are "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu - I wasn't ready for this one to end. Catherynne M. Valente's ...
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review 1: Delightful themed set of stories. Doesn't get five stars, because someone else's collection of fantastic stories are never quite enough, and there we're times where I wondered quite what a particular story was doing in this collection. This is not a commentary on the individual s...
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review 1: I went through and rated each story and came out with a combined average of 3.4 stars. There are, in my mind, four pieces that I gave 5 stars to and a number of stories where I was hard on them because they relied on the reader already knowing the characters. I decided to rate th...
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review 1: Overall I felt the narratives in the majority of the stories here took a backseat to the 'hard' science. I'm all for getting the impression my science fiction is accurate enough. But I really don't care for long technical explanations about how it was possible for X-based lifefo...