Brin gets the Twelve Tomorrows anthology off to a good start – packing a lot into a short story that has augmented reality and societal changes they bring about as a key element.
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Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2005
Jack Williamson. The Stonehenge Gate. First instalment of a novel serialisation. Michael A. Burstein. 75 Years. A historian visits and berates her politician ex-husband for attempting to push back the period before individual census forms are made available, from 72 to 75 years. She knows the guilty secret which he is hiding, which is the […]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, July/August 2003
The annual double-issue. G. David Nordley. The Fire and The Wind. The story starts with a stark warning to the main character than in space, whilst oxygen is a friend, in the wrong circumstances it can be lethal. A crew of students with the lunar rescue squad find themselves pitched into a dramatic rescue, but […]
Year’s Best SF 6. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2001
Stories by : Brian Stableford, Brian W. Aldiss Steppenpferd, Charles Dexter Ward, Chris Beckett, Dan Simmons, Darrell Schweitzer, David Brin, David Langford, Greg Egan, Howard Waldrop, Joan Slonczewski, John M. Ford, Ken MacLeod, M. Shayne Bell, Michael F. Flynn, Nancy Kress, Norman Spinrad, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Reed, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Dedman, Tananarive Due, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin
Year’s Best SF 4. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism, 1999
Stories by : Alexander Jablokov, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, David Langford, Dominic Green, Gregory Benford, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Mark S. Geston, Mary Rosenblum, Mary Soon Lee, Michael F. Flynn, Michael Skeet, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Norman Spinrad, Rob Chilson, Robert Reed, Ron Goulart, Stephen Baxter, Ted Chiang.
Live Without a Net. edited by Lou Anders. Roc, 2003
All in all, an interesting varied collection, and well worth the shelf-space.
The 1989 Annual World’s Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1989
Contents only.
‘Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction’ (Robert Silverberg, ed, Eos, 1999, UK: Orbit, 1999.)
The longer than usual gap since my last review can now be revealed as being due to my reading 690+ pages of ‘Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction’. This hefty paperback had been sitting on my shelves for some time, and looked to be perfect holiday reading for the […]