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The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first twelve volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of 2007 in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors, "The Year's Best Sf 13" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.
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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, including The Dark Descent, Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, Northern Stars, The Ascent of Wonder (co-edited with Kathryn Cramer), and a number of Christmas anthologies. Recently he edited his tenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF and co-edited five volumes of Year's Best Fantasy. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award thirty-one times to date and won the Hugo for Best Editor. 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. She is on the editorial board of the New York Review of Science Fiction and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twelve times. Her dark fantasy hypertext, In Small and Large Pieces, was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc.
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This review is from: Year's Best SF 13 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
The thirteenth in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF series was hard to find, even as a used paperback--there is no Kindle version. I found several of the 25 stories enjoyable, but the collection as a whole had less sparkle than I've grown used to reading the other fourteen books. Perhaps this book is cursed, somehow.
If this faint praise makes you reluctant to pick up the thirteenth book, let me try to entice you. Here are the five shortest stories in the book. It's a minimal investment of your time to try one or two of them. Maybe you will be hooked. Or trapped, somehow. Tony Ballantyne's "Aristotle OS" is about upgrading the main character's computer, if not his expectations. Peter Watts' "Repeating the Past" is about the emotional cost of playing video games. There's some sort of moral lesson there, too, if you can put your finger on it. Robyn Hitchcock's "They Came from the Future" is a poem, for crying out loud--it's hard to know what it's about. It's hard to even keep the tenses straight. Tim Pratt's "Artifice and Intelligence" is about coping with the world's first machine intelligence. It poses a challenge. John Hemry's "As You Know, Bob" seems to be about Bill's continual fascination with Jane's breasts, as much as it is about anything. Like Hartwell and Cramer, I find that it reminds me of "The Nine Billion Names of God." No, not that one. The other one. You might as well read the collection; you've probably invoked the curse already by reading this review. If it matters, my favorite stories were Gene Wolfe's "Memorare" and Kage Baker's "Plotters and Shooters." They can speak to you for themselves. If you find yourself spending time with them.
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2.2 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The good, the bad, and the ugly,
By Roket Pad - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF 13 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
I guess it's a matter of taste. The anthology has a broad variety of sci-fi. Some of it I really liked.
I particularly disliked Memorare by Gene Wolfe, which never seemed to end and had dialog that grated at my bones. I particularly liked Plotters and Shooters by Kage Baker, which surprised me and made me laugh. I never would have guessed this would interest me. I don't normally read anothologies, so I can't compare it to anything. Sampling so much stuff reminded me how much I like my favorite authors, though, and warned me from straying from them for too long. I did feel that the story introductions were annoying. Knowing something about the author and their normal writing is fine. But the short descriptions of the story didn't always match the tone and often ruined the atmosphere that the author would try to set in the next sentence. Why do I need a teaser for something I'm about to read? 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Good selection...,
By Ryles - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF 13 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
The collection started slow, with the first few stories actually disappointing me. However, somewhere along, the stories got better and I started liking most of the rest. A few of my favorites include "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe, "End Game" by Nancy Kress (this one was particularly scary), and "The Bridge" by Kathleen Ann Goonan. One especially disturbing story I didn't like for its theme was "Pirates of Somali Coast" - not because it was not well written, but because it's just plain disturbing. All in all, it's a book with a good selection.
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Enough good stories to get by,
By T. Burket "tburket" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Year's Best SF 13 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
The collection was rather disappointing for a "best of" and got off (to me) with a terrible start with the somewhat offensive "Baby Doll", which doesn't even seem to qualify as SF and is very heavy-handed in its message. The start wasn't helped by "Memorae", by Gene Wolfe, in the fourth slot, a story with excellent potential marred by the romantic and anti-romantic interactions of the characters.
"Plotters and Shooters" may be the best, snappy and amusing. Another favorite, "How Music Begins", was a very fresh (to me) take on alien abduction with an unusally dominant role for music for a SF story. The others range from a few that are pretty good to some with no appeal, leading to an overall average rating. Don't be afraid to skim or abandon some of the stories if they don't engage fairly early. |
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