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Loading... New Legends: The Original Sf Anthology of the 90s and beyond (1995)by Greg Bear (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
None.  aulsmith | Feb 12, 2009 |  A fine anthology that Bear put together here. There is also a reminiscence he wrote about a group of right wing sf writers being asked to talk to the government about space weapons etc. meeting Arthur C. Clarke while discussing this and telling him off for having the temerity to actually disagree with them, because he was not American, with Heinlein the ringleader. Friendly bunch. Bit insecure too, by the sound of it. New Legends : Elegy - Mary Rosenblum New Legends : A Desperate Calculus - Sterling Blake New Legends : Scenes from a Future Marriage - James Stevens-Arce New Legends : Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb of Rer in Karhide on Gethen - Ursula K. Le Guin New Legends : High Abyss - Gregory Benford New Legends : Recording Angel - Paul J. McAuley New Legends : When Strangers Meet - Sonia Orin Lyris New Legends : The Day the Aliens Came - Robert Sheckley New Legends : Gnota - Greg Abraham New Legends : Rorvik's War - Geoffrey A. Landis New Legends : Radiance - Carter Scholz New Legends : The Red Blaze is the Morning - Robert Silverberg New Legends : One - George Alec Effinger New Legends : Scarecrow - Poul Anderson New Legends : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan Scientist use squid neurons against Alzheimer's, may have found a surprising relationship as a consequence. 4 out of 5 Population control by epidemic. 3.5 out of 5 Taking gameshows way too seriously. 2.5 out of 5 Puberty gender blues cured by dedicated fracking and food, even if the flavor can be a crapshoot. 4 out of 5 Large scale type war. 3 out of 5 Personality variations don't quite cut it, universal aims are worth a shot though. 4 out of 5 Better understand the local entertainment customs. 3 out of 5 Trading with the long way out of towners is quite odd. 4 out of 5 Hard, life or death choices, with pigs like us. 4.5 out of 5 Drafted into simulation. 4.5 out of 5 Space missile defense politics, physics and prevarication. 3.5 out of 5 Archaeologist time swap. 4 out of 5 Astronomically improbable flop gets robots religion, and they are guided to the irrational light. 3.5 out of 5 A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation. A story you might just have to read a bit of twice. 5 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-legends-greg-bear.html (  ) bluetyson | Mar 17, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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Le Guin's Coming of Age in Karhide, set on the same planet as The Left Hand of Darkness. She's made several attempts to re-envision her work from a more feminist perspective. I think this is one of her most successful efforts.
Paul J. McAuley's Recording Angel. I don't really remember what this was about, but I remember it was hauntingly beautiful.
Robert Silverberg's The Red Blaze is the Morning. A very interesting story about an aging archeologist. (