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Epicurus.com - Year's Best SF 11
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Manufacturer: Eos
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060873417
ISBN: 0060873418
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher: Eos
Release Date: 2006-05-30
Studio: Eos
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Editorial Reviews:
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Travel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration of the very best short SF to appear over the past year. Once again, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled an extraordinary collection featuring stunning works from modern masters as well as dazzling gems from brilliant new talents -- tales that carry the reader to the far corners of the galaxy and beyond, into hitherto unexplored regions. Get ready to take glorious flight on a journey to the miraculous.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Free SF Reader
Comment: The editors certainly seem enamored of the rather short stories found in Nature magazine, and again I think that may hamper a rating, including lots of them, although it certainly adds to a variety. 31 stories here, which is more than the equivalent Dozois volume, although the book is probably only 55% of the length, or something like that.
As such, a standard type edition of one of these Hartwell and Cramer volumes, with a 3.79 average. Only three standouts in the 31, McAuley, Reynolds and Doctorow. However, only 2 average stories, despite all the short pieces, so rather well done there, so along with the Year's Best SF 10 they have done a fine job avoiding stories of not much interest.
Apart from actual real natural disasters, they mention one anthology - Constellations by Peter Crowther, in the introduction, which would appear to have a lot of British SF talent in it, with stellar based stories the theme.
With all that, pretty much a 4.75 I think, and given this scale, may as well be a 5 given the consistency.
Year's Best SF 11 : New Hope for the Dead - David Langford
Year's Best SF 11 : Deus Ex Homine - Hannu Rajaniemi
Year's Best SF 11 : When the Great Days Came - Gardner R. Dozois
Year's Best SF 11 : Second Person, Present Tense - Daryl Gregory
Year's Best SF 11 : Dreadnought - Justina Robson
Year's Best SF 11 : A Case of Consilience - Ken MacLeod
Year's Best SF 11 : Toy Planes - Tobias S. Buckell
Year's Best SF 11 : Mason's Rats - Neal Asher
Year's Best SF 11 : A Modest Proposal - Vonda N. McIntyre
Year's Best SF 11 : Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch - Rudy Rucker
Year's Best SF 11 : The Forever Kitten - Peter F. Hamilton
Year's Best SF 11 : City of Reason - Matthew Jarpe
Year's Best SF 11 : Ivory Tower - Bruce Sterling
Year's Best SF 11 : Sheila - Lauren McLaughlin
Year's Best SF 11 : Rats of the System - Paul McAuley
Year's Best SF 11 : I Love Liver: A Romance - Larissa Lai
Year's Best SF 11 : The Edge of Nowhere - James Patrick Kelly
Year's Best SF 11 : What's Expected of Us - Ted Chiang
Year's Best SF 11 : Girls and Boys Come Out to Play - Michael Swanwick
Year's Best SF 11 : Lakes of Light - Stephen Baxter
Year's Best SF 11 : The Albian Message - Oliver Morton
Year's Best SF 11 : Bright Red Star - Bud Sparhawk
Year's Best SF 11 : Third Day Lights - Alaya Dawn Johnson
Year's Best SF 11 : RAM Shift Phase 2 - Greg Bear
Year's Best SF 11 : On the Brane - Gregory Benford
Year's Best SF 11 : Oxygen Rising - R. Garcia y Robertson
Year's Best SF 11 : And Future King - Adam Roberts
Year's Best SF 11 : Beyond the Aquila Rift - Alastair Reynolds
Year's Best SF 11 : Angel of Light - Joe Haldeman
Year's Best SF 11 : Ikiryoh - Liz Williams
Year's Best SF 11 : I Robot - Cory Doctorow
EGAN electronic eternal existence expensive.
4 out of 5
Baby deity a bother, makes me want to kill some
4 out of 5
Rat's eye armageddon.
3.5 out of 5
Zen and the art of personality maintenance.
4 out of 5
Soldier Unit.
4 out of 5
Genetic message.
3.5 out of 5
I dread to blow off my head.
4 out of 5
James Herbert book, and the natives are arming, if not as numerous.
3.5 out of 5
Not much left.
3 out of 5
Brane-assisted painter time-snatch.
3.5 out of 5
Kid stasis.
4 out of 5
A Better Way would be Highly Fantastic.
4 out of 5
Physics commune advances.
4 out of 5
Supercomputing antimeat plot.
4 out of 5
Transcendent hunter-killer chase experiment.
4.5 out of 5
Escape organ.
3 out of 5
Bad dogs and old stories.
4 out of 5
Simon already Says.
4 out of 5
Godmaking and removal, squid variety included.
3.5 out of 5
Star wrapping investigation.
3.5 out of 5
Sometimes it is just old directions.
4 out of 5
Conflict kill choices.
3.5 out of 5
Human revival project.
3.5 out of 5
Robot review parody.
3.5 out of 5
Counter-Earth trip.
3.5 out of 5
Greenie peace preferred.
4 out of 5
Programmed government's Arthurian overlord.
3.5 out of 5
Lost In Space.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how
vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is.
4.5 out of 5
Thrilling Wonder Stories alien xmas deal.
4 out of 5
Kappa bad kid bit minder.
3.5 out of 5
Baby arrival brings brainy Big Brother bot researcher's defection and later reunion desires in multiple.
4.5 out of 5
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice collection of SF.
Comment: You'll find very nice SF stories, although some might seem a little too short, they nevertheless reflect recent themes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A very good science fiction book
Comment: I had a lot of fun reading this book. It has number of great stories that make you think about current political and social makings of the world and US. These stories raise number of questions and possibilities.
Overall, a very enjoyable book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: too many too short stories
Comment: It seems that Hartwell took one too many of the nano short stories
from the magazine 'nature' for this book. They are cute and clever,but a one page story from Ted Chiang? Come on, get real.
Most of the stories are good to very good, especially 'shelia',
'on the brane','oxygen rising'. It seems some of the stories are
begining to suffer from the rudy ruckner school of protoplasmic
farm tractors, something that stross and doctorow have been mucking around in for awhile. For some reason these 'organic fiction'novels have as much of a tendency to sicken one as to excite one. I enjoyed the majority of the book, I just wish
this tendency to publish really short stories would lighten up a
bit.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Year Great Stories
Comment: I have enjoyed "Year's best SF" since the anthology series had started to be edited by Hartwell and Cramer. This year is a very good year for Sci Fi. This year there is a wide variety of stories to both make you laugh and think or both at the same time. The stories run from 40+ page novellas to 2 page shorties. The one thing they all have in common is very good stories.
This year was boon for Hard Sci Fi. Once again Gregory Benford has written a gem. "On the Brane" explores an alternate universe where the inhabitants appeal for help as their universe is dying and they know it. He magically weaves both the hard sci fi and emotions together to write a very powerfull story. Joe Haldeman has written a "Angel of Light" which skillfully blends religion and sci fi toghether very well to bring out a trully wonderfull Christmas tale.
"Second Person Present Tense" looks at a drug that eliminates a person's mind and how family a tries to rebridge the gap with their daughter, who has regained her faculties, but is not the same person emotionally or mentally.
"Years Best Sci Fi 11" is one of the best years releases in years for this anthology series. There isn't a miss among the stories and some of them a true gems. Highly Recommended.
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