This book seems like any other New Age herbal remedy book with nothing that particularly ties it to Amish society other than generic annecdotes and AI generated illustrations. I strongly believe the entire book is AI generated.

A dense and deeply detailed exploration of City Lights and the epic literary culture centered around it.

Although the first section of the book is a nice pep talk for anyone interested in writing, perhaps the most useful parts are those devoted to the practical aspects of publication: comparing traditional versus self publishing, finding an agent, marketing options for self published works and so forth.

I always look forward to encountering new writers in well-edited anthologies and Fission #4 did not dissapoint. A great collection of science fiction from the UK and elsewhere.

An interesting set of steampunk stories. Perhaps a little disappointing that a book on global steampunk had only American authors, overall the book was a good read.

A chef with wide experience working on term contracts at mines and other locations, Kuhn embarks on an adventure as a cook for the Australian research station in Antarctica. This leads to summer contracts for a Antarctic tourist company. His love of the continent and skill at providing complex meals in extreme circumstances made this worth reading. The style of writing reflects two facts: he first language was French, not English, and he is a naive wordsmith. But the story underneath the unskilled text is interesting. A few recipes are included at the end and the book is illustrated by Kuhn's own photographs.

I've an avid reader of this anthology for several years and the 2022 edition did not disappoint. Donna Scott has done another fantastic job of collecting a range of sf stories of quality.

An interesting and different look at the experiences of a varied group of explorers, some of whom were new to me.

Fantastic collection of stories from some of my favorite writers as well as some who are new to me.

Once again Donna Scott has assembled a stellar group of stories.

An interesting blend of travel and food writing. The Austrian recipes brought back memories of the summer I studied in Graz during college.

Donna Scott has assembled another really great collection of stories. Perhaps the story that resonated most with me was "The End of All Our Exploring" by Gary Couzens, the story of a young woman and a time traveler she meets during her adolescence. These anthologies always introduce me to new voices in science fiction and I look forward to them every year.

I was eager to read this book for two main reasons: I'm aprofessional archivist with a keen interest in social history and popular culture this book and I've also been creating fanvids since 2006. This is a fantastic history of this particular fan art form.

The format of the ebook, with embedded links to the vids under discussion, is fantastic.

A concise introduction to candy-making that would make a good entry-level book for anyone who is hesitant to make boiled sweets on the stove top. The fudge recipes, in particular, would be a great starting point.

I love seeking out sff authors outside North America and the Best of British Science Fiction anthologies are a wonderful way to find new voices in Brtish sf. This edition continues that tradition with a great selection of stories. I was familiar with two of the writers, but now I’ll be keeping an eye out for of these others.

As a fan of both British procedural tv and science fiction, I found this novella to be a well-balanced mash up of the two. It appears to be a set up for a series of works that are worth checking out. I seen positive reviews for Hutchinson’s work for quite a while and now I know why.

I've researched culinary history for years and have to admit that I never gave butter much thought. As most of us who grew up in the 20th century I just blindly reached for sweet cream butter when recreating historical dishes. Khosrova presents a detailed history both of the importance of this ingredient in varied cultures around the world and of the relatively recent industrialization processes that have pushed cultured butter out of the mainstream. From this point forward in working with early modern and medieval recipes I now know that in order to create and authentic taste I'll need to use cultured butter instead sweet cream variety that I've always taken for granted.

For anyone curious about how other nations and cultures approach science fiction, this is an excellent anthology. While I didn't love everything here, there were many stories that I liked a lot and a number of authors I'll now keep an eye out for.

I was familiar with Paul Cornell's work on Doctor Who and a big fan of Shadow Police series, London Falling and The Severed Streets, but not at all familiar with his short fiction. The stories in this anthology range from early early works written in 1992 through stories published in the Rogues anthology in 2014. Through the decades Cornell doesn't shy away from experimenting in tone and style and character and genre. Some of the experiments are, perhaps, less successful, but they are always interesting.

"The Occurrence of Slocombe Priory" was a fun take on Scooby Do written in a 19th century style, a mashup of genre that made me chuckle. Unexpected and clever. Also unexpected in the point of view in "The Sensible Folly", a story that shouldn't work but was I enjoyed a great deal.

I have enjoyed the Wild Cards universe but never read Cornell's contributions to that world. Both "More" and "The Elephant in the Room" are excellent additions to Wild Cards and were, perhaps my favorite in this collection.

I received this as an early reviewer book and was pleasantly surprised how immediately useful this will be for me. I've just been on a physical fitness schedule for a year or so and don't go to the gym, but this book has wonderful exercises, well-explained that I can do at my current level of fitness and beyond. The anatomical illustrations and explanations are especially nice for helping me understand which exercises I want to focus on, how they're going to benefit me and how to do them correctly.

Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages does an excellent job of filling in the gaps in the reader's understanding of how people and goods moved during this time period. Just the right amount of detail for a general reader or, perhaps, a writer who is trying to get the background details of life to flesh out historical fiction, the book would probably not satisfy a more serious student of medieval travel or commerce because of the lack of footnotes. Even so, for an undergraduate student, it might help bring this time period to life and stimulate more in-depth research on the topoc.