The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction)
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Editor: Gardner DozoisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-08
ISBN: 0312378602
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll keep it short, as there are other lengthy and informative reviews here.
I don't read a ton of sci-fi novels. I do love sci-fi short stories, and this series is the place to go for that.
This collection runs the gamut from more literary to more purely entertaining works. I never got the urge to skip a story, each held my interest. At least half the stories in the book were memorable and drove me to seek out other works by their authors, but even the other half were worth reading.
Some reviewers suggest that Dozois has a taste for depressing, "downer" works. I suspect these reviewers are perhaps not used to reading serious literature. Dozois clearly prefers more weighty, artful, and serious work, and tends to minimize the inclusion of more breezy, "entertaining" stories. If you are looking for the written equivalent of a Star Trek episode, you won't find too much of that here. Rather, most of these authors aim higher, aspiring to, and much of the time attaining, the status of art.
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Summary of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction)
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident?? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross?. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.
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