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This title contains the best short form science fiction of 2006, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field.
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David Hartwell is currently a senior editor at Tor/Forge books. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies. Recently he edited his tenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF and co-edited five volumes of Year's Best Fantasy. Kathryn Cramer is a writer, anthologist, and housewife. She has won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear, co-edited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her anthology Walls of Fear. She has co-edited several anthologies with David G. Hartwell and now does the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF with him.
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Year's Best SF 12 is Good Enough,
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This review is from: Year's Best SF: No. 12 (Mass Market Paperback)
David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have assembled 26 science fiction stories from those published in 2006. As usual, the introductions to each story contain author bios, web sites, brief descriptions of other works, and a non-spoiler characterization of the story in this collection. It is a good, but not a great collection. Three of the stories also appear in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection.
My five favorites: Mary Rosenblum's "Home Movies" introduces a member of one of the world's newest professions, a trained rememberer who stores experiences to be sold and lost completely to her employer. Until she experiences some things worth remembering. Alastair Reynolds' "Tiger, Burning" sends an investigator to solve a mystery in a different brane where physics is different, but human motivation is much the same. The guilty party is certain to be executed. Michael Swanwick's "Tin Marsh" comes off a little like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Two prospectors get on each other's nerves while searching for metal deposits on Venus. In Robert Reed's "Rwanda" a father and son discuss a failed alien invasion of Earth and its aftermath. Some humans found opportunities to be merciful. In Charlie Rosenkrantz's "Preemption" an fleet of alien assassins arrives to scour the earth of an ambitious species before it can become a galactic threat. This isn't the best of the Best of SF series, but it is worth reading and provides a measure of enjoyment. I wonder why this book and the Year's Best SF 13 are the only recent books in the series that are not available on the Kindle? It makes reading them surreptitiously a lot more challenging.
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Another Winner from Hartwell and Cramer,
By J P. Rich "jprich1227" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF: No. 12 (Mass Market Paperback)
Of the various annual SF anthologies, this one and Gardner Dozois's are consistently the best. You should buy both. the 2007 Hartwell is different and perhaps superior to #11, which had an unusal emphasis on short-shorts that is not the case with #12. And if you've never read Hartwell's #8, pick that up too--or all of the prior 11. Great quick reads.
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Year's Best SF 12 is Good Enough,
By John M. Ford "johnDC" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF: No. 12 (Mass Market Paperback)
David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have assembled 26 science fiction stories from those published in 2006. As usual, the introductions to each story contain author bios, web sites, brief descriptions of other works, and a non-spoiler characterization of the story in this collection. It is a good, but not a great collection. Three of the stories also appear in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection.
My five favorites: Mary Rosenblum's "Home Movies" introduces a member of one of the world's newest professions, a trained rememberer who stores experiences to be sold and lost completely to her employer. Until she experiences some things worth remembering. Alastair Reynolds' "Tiger, Burning" sends an investigator to solve a mystery in a different brane where physics is different, but human motivation is much the same. The guilty party is certain to be executed. Michael Swanwick's "Tin Marsh" comes off a little like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Two prospectors get on each other's nerves while searching for metal deposits on Venus. In Robert Reed's "Rwanda" a father and son discuss a failed alien invasion of Earth and its aftermath. Some humans found opportunities to be merciful. In Charlie Rosenkrantz's "Preemption" an fleet of alien assassins arrives to scour the earth of an ambitious species before it can become a galactic threat. This isn't the best of the Best of SF series, but it is worth reading and provides a measure of enjoyment. I wonder why this book and the Year's Best SF 13 are the only recent books in the series that are not available on the Kindle? It makes reading them surreptitiously a lot more challenging.
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Nice to be in print,
By J. J. Brannon "JJ Brannon" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF: No. 12 (Mass Market Paperback)
As usual, David & Kathryn have assembled some of the best short SF of the year [for those stories first appearing in 2006].
This anthology includes the Hugo-nominated "Dawn, and Sunset, and All the Colours of the Earth" by Michael F. Flynn, his moving tale of love, loss, and fortitude of spirit in the face of an inexplicable disaster. [Honesty compels me to confess that myself and a few other regulars of Mr. Flynn's AOL community made small contributions to the story at his request.] The similarly themed "Rwanda" by Robert Reed and Gardner R. Dozois' dazzling "Contrafactual" also stand out. |
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