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Loading... Year's Best SF 13by David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor)
None. ZB9   mcolpitts | Aug 6, 2009 |  http://nhw.livejournal.com/1121128.html As always, a generally good selection, with a lot of the stories revolving around virtual identities and gaming. I had read two of the 25 before, as they were Hugo nominees; of the rest, the ones that will stay with me are the first, "Baby Doll" by Johanna Sinisalo, a terrifying tale of future sexuality; in the middle, "End Game" by Nancy Kress, which retreads some of the ground from her "Beggars in Spain" but takes it in a new direction; and the final story, James Van Pelt's "How Music Begins", a tale of alien abduction, romance and a high school band. All good stuff; I still have the Dozois collection to look forward to. (  ) nwhyte | Nov 16, 2008 | The thirteenth volume of this series is down on quality from the twelfth, which was outstanding, at 3.90. This one averages 3.71. However, there is one great story, Terry Bisson's 'Pirates of the Somali Coast'. When they are that good I suppose you can forgive the fact that it may only be SF in the nearest of near future senses, perhaps. However, you could call it a horror story, or satire so black you have to find out what call the Old Ones from Out Of Space call their colour darker than black to categorise it. The weakest part of the book is after this story, where it trails off in quality from there. The other standout is Kage Baker's amusing Plotters and Shooters. It was a pleasant surprise to find the ebook of this after not seeing one for volume 12, meaning no waiting around, not paying someone with a plane the same price as the cost of the book to get it here, or more, etc. So well done publishers for bringing that back. There's the usual brief overview at the start, pointing out JBU and Strange Horizons online, and several original anthologies being good - New Space Opera, Fast Forward, Solaris 1, etc. They also included a poem. The editors are also quite keen on Tony Ballantyne this year, mentioning him multiple times - but neither of these stories I thought were that good. So, call this volume a bit over a 4.25, or 4.5 on the usual scale. Year's Best SF 13 : Baby Doll - Johanna Sinisalo Year's Best SF 13 : Aristotle OS - Tony Ballantyne Year's Best SF 13 : The Last American - John Kessel Year's Best SF 13 : Memorare - Gene Wolfe Year's Best SF 13 : Plotters and Shooters - Kage Baker Year's Best SF 13 : Repeating the Past - Peter Watts Year's Best SF 13 : No More Stories - Stephen Baxter Year's Best SF 13 : The Tomb Wife - Gwyneth Jones Year's Best SF 13 : An Evening's Honest Peril - Marc Laidlaw Year's Best SF 13 : End Game - Nancy Kress Year's Best SF 13 : Induction - Greg Egan Year's Best SF 13 : A Blue and Cloudless Sky - Bernard Ribbeck Year's Best SF 13 : Reasons not to Publish - Gregory Benford Year's Best SF 13 : Objective Impermeability in a Closed System - William Shunn Year's Best SF 13 : Always - Karen Joy Fowler Year's Best SF 13 : Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - Ken MacLeod Year's Best SF 13 : Artifice and Intelligence - Tim Pratt Year's Best SF 13 : Pirates of the Somali Coast - Terry Bisson Year's Best SF 13 : Sanjeev and Robotwallah - Ian McDonald Year's Best SF 13 : Third Person - Tony Ballantyne Year's Best SF 13 : The Bridge - Kathleen Ann Goonan Year's Best SF 13 : As You Know Bob - John Hemry Year's Best SF 13 : The Lustration - Bruce Sterling Year's Best SF 13 : How Music Begins - James Van Pelt Accelerated cradle snatching. 3.5 out of 5 Accelerated cradle snatching. 3 out of 5 DAS Biography. 4 out of 5 Space vault menace. 3.5 out of 5 Deathlok defense defeat predicted, Avenger! 4.5 out of 5 Holocaust memories, game boy. 4 out of 5 Interbreeding expansion remnant conversation. 3.5 out of 5 Extradimensional big brain spaceflight fun, Batman. 4 out of 5 Multiplayer tomb raid. 3.5 out of 5 Grandmaster class tunnel vision. 4 out of 5 Orchid Flower followup Duty. 4 out of 5 Colonization time adjustments. 3 out of 5 Omnipotence? Bah. Pass the grog. 3 out of 5 Possible past wife hookup system. 4 out of 5 Static cult life. 3.5 out of 5 Empire threat impetus attack gives boomerang inspiration. 4 out of 5 Bad ghosts, bad machine, bad game. 4 out of 5 Yo Ho Ho, and many machine guns. With internet access, hats, and a lot less relatives than at the beginning. 5 out of 5 Battletech comes and goes, but pizza always popular. 4 out of 5 A walk-on part in the war, a lead role in the Sarge. 3.5 out of 5 Artificial revelation recreation. 3.5 out of 5 Genre written commercial adjustment. 3.5 out of 5 "You’ve secretly discussed artificial intelligence for forty thousand years?" "Thirty thousand," the metaphysician admitted. "Unfortunately, it took us ten thousand years to admit that the system’s behavior had some unaccountable aspects." 3 out of 5 Band camp space shanghaied. 3 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/06/years-best-sf-13-david-g-hartwell-and.html (  ) bluetyson | Jun 3, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061252093, Mass Market Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:45:51 -0400) No library descriptions found. |
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