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Year's Best SF 13
by: David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.087608
EAN: 9780061252099
ISBN: 0061252093
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: Eos
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Sales Rank: 149608
Studio: Eos

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The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field—while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before—and a miraculous future now rests in your hands—within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- The good, the bad, and the ugly
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 ... Read More

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- SF Picks Based on Political Bias
If you want left wing, liberal bias picking your stories, then you will like this collection. Otherwise, skip it.

The authors start right off discussing global warming and voodoo science in the Intro, and want you to believe it's established science (well it is established doctrine with the left wing kooks).

Best not waste your time or your money on this book.

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- hartwell's folly
I am seriously considering avoiding anthologies edited by Hartwell. I opened his book and about 2 pages in, they have a whole page
ranting about how someone deposited a fraudulent check drawn on their (his) bank account. That' really too bad, but what in the heck is this doing in a years best anthology? His pick for best SF short story of the year is some mediocre story by his personal god, gene wolfe, which is for the most part incoherent. Then in the preface to the greg egan story 'preface', hartwell says "he tends to write what we sometimes call neuropsych hard sf". Well, jolly good for you mr.hartwell, I applaud that amazing creation of a new genre of science fiction. How dumb do you think
most sf readers are?
There are only about 5 stories in this volume worth reading.
I generally buy this as a time killer until Dozois comes out with his anthology of The Years Best Science Fiction. Maybe ... Read More

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- just OK this time around
This volume is less interesting, on the whole, than other recent entries in the series. Gene Wolfe's "Memorare", Bernhard Ribbeck's "A Blue and Cloudless Sky", and perhaps Ian McDonald's "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" are the standout stories; Kage Baker's "Plotters and Shooters" and Terry Bisson's "Pirates of the Somali Coast" are fine lighter fare (though the latter is hardly "science fiction" on even the most generous understanding of the term). Honorable mention: Tony Ballantine's "Third Person". There are some other OK stories in here, but in all honesty it's not what you'd expect from a "Year's Best" compilation.

Two editorial decisions that puzzled me: the inclusion of a number of rather annoying "short-short"s (1-3 page stories); and the inclusion of Ken McLeod's "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" The latter is a decent read, but it is culled from a collection of original stories that contains quite a few ... Read More

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