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Title: Year's Best SF 7 by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer ISBN: 0-06-106143-3 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Decent Anthology, But I Prefer The Dozois Anthology.
Comment: I find it thrilling to open such an anthology with all sorts of stories never encountered before. I'm not a person who has the funds to keep up with the magazines. So this should be a nice opportunity to read the 'best' stories of the past year.
Keep in mind that the editor{s} has his/her own ideas about what makes a good story. No bad words about these two editors here. A fine collection as always, however.
I'm not a fan of such mass-market paperback books, as they are often made of cheap paper. Worse still is the binding.
For more value for money go to the Gardner Dozois 'Best of the Year'.
Whatever you do, some of these stories are nice.
Happy reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this annual collection
Comment: I just love this collection. I tend to not read sci-fi because so much of it is poorly written, but this series is wonderful, full of so many great things, and for the most part well-written "The Measure Of All Things" is the real stand out this year but even the slower moving stories end up with something that really stretches the mind. This series of anthologies bring back the wonder of the stories I was introduced to in my youth. My favorite yearly anthology.
Rating: 2
Summary: An unexceptional gathering of current stars in the field
Comment: Hartwell's not a particularly adept editor. He's taken with a lot of star power and evidently lets a writer's prestige be the only criterion for inclusion in his anthologies. Most of these stories are competently written, but they lack spark, that sense of wonder that used to fill the field until about 15 years ago. It's like a lot of rock music these days: great talent with nothing much to say. How some of these stories made it into a "year's best" book is beyond me, but one thing is clear. The science fiction field is running dry. No story here has a decent (or even a twist) ending. Nothing here is genuinely memorable. I so much wanted these anthologies to be a counterpoint to the drab Dozois anthologies, but they aren't. If this is the best we can do, then I'd say we're in trouble. (And the sad part is that younger readers don't know how good science fiction used to be.)
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Title: Year's Best SF 8 by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer ISBN: 006106453X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Year's Best SF 6 by David G. Hartwell ISBN: 0061020559 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois ISBN: 0312308604 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Year's Best SF 4 by David G. Hartwell ISBN: 0061059021 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois ISBN: 0312274785 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 18 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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