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The Year's Best SF 7 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
by David G. Hartwell (Editor)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books (23 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0061061433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061061431
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.8 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 665,097 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The latest annual collection of outstanding science fiction stories features the contributions of Brian W. Aldiss, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, David Morrell, Gene Wolfe, Terry Bisson, and Michael Swanwick, among other notable masters of the speculative fiction genre. Original.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and thought provoking anthology, 14 Jun 2007
By tybalt-quin (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Hartwell has compiled a fine mixture of hard and character-driven science fiction (set on planets and in colonies and on space craft and a host of other locations), together with some brain bending experimental SF that plays with typography and story telling techniques. As such, there should be something for everyone who professes an interest in the genre.

Of the 19 writers, I confess that I was only familiar with the names Ursula Le Guin, Brian W. Aldiss and James Morrow before this collection, but I have certainly come away keen to find more work by Terry Bisson (whose contribution to this anthology, 'Charlie's Angels' is a wonderful mix of SF and noir told in the first person by a hard-bitten Supernatural Private Eye called Jack Villon and a complete joy to read) and Michael Swanwick (whose 'Under's Game' is a sly parody of Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' that's told with a deft touch).

Of the other writers, I will say that I didn't enjoy either of the two more experimental SF stories. Firstly, 'The Cat's Pajamas' by James Morrow is actually three different stories, so you get the beginning of one story, the middle of another and the conclusion of a third. I know some people really get off on this way of playing with the story telling form, and Morrow is a skilled writer who does it better than most, but I'm a traditionalist and I like to have one story with a beginning, a middle and an end that follows the same characters or plot line. Secondly, whilst 'Undone' by James Patrick Kelly does follow the tradi