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The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories (2011)

by Robert Silverberg(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0012079480 (ISBN13: 2940012079480)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Wildside Press

series

Science Fiction Megapack

review 1: A fun collection of adventure stories. The vast majority was by male American writers, mostly from the 1950s, with a few from the 30s and 60s thrown in, which might account for some similarity in plots and characters. However, only a couple were really badly written and a few were quite original. Most weren't actual science fiction stories, to my mind*, as you might simply have exchanged 'Mars' for 'Texas' and 'ship' for 'horse' and have a story that might equally well have been submitted to a Wild West magazine instead of a Sci-fi one. But regardless of that, by far the majority were just pretty good yarns.*IMO, simply setting a story on another planet or in the future does not a science fiction story make, esp if, as was the case with a surprising amount of stories here,... more there is no further imaginativeness about future technologies or social developments, science-based or not, whatsoever.
review 2: A collection of old sci fi stories that cost 49p on Kindle. Obviously compilations like this are going to be a bit erratic in terms of quality, but there were some little gems in this one. "Little Black Bag" is a wonderful little short about a man getting a second chance and his ambitious assistant that happens to involve timetravel, "Arena" is classic sci fi - man pitted against alien in a battle to the death which is quite good. There's some crap in here too, one about a bomb in the Hudson which I can't even work out why it's sci fi was crap, as were a few others I can't remember. Worth the price though6/10 less

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