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Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction

by Al Sarrantonio (Editor)

Other authors: Catherine Asaro (Contributor), Neal Jr. Barrett (Contributor), Stephen Baxter (Contributor), Gregory Benford (Contributor), P.D. Cacek (Contributor)26 more, Jack Dann (Contributor), Paul Di Filippo (Contributor), Thomas M. Disch (Contributor), Joe Haldeman (Contributor), Elizabeth Hand (Contributor), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Contributor), James Patrick Kelly (Contributor), Kathe Koja (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Barry N. Malzberg (Contributor), Ardath Mayhar (Contributor), Michael Moorcock (Contributor), David Morrell (Contributor), Larry Niven (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Kit Reed (Contributor), Rudy Rucker (Contributor), Peter Schneider (Contributor), John Shirley (Contributor), Dan Simmons (Contributor), Michael Marshall Smith (Contributor), Harry Turtledove (Contributor), Robert E. Vardeman (Contributor), Catherine Wells (Contributor), Laura Whitton (Contributor), Gene Wolfe (Contributor)

Series: Skolian Empire Chronological Order ("Ave de Paso" 2326)

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This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works. All-new, original stories by € Ursula K. Le Guin € Gregory Benford € Joe Haldeman € Joyce Carol Oates € and many others
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This large book of short stories was subtitled "extreme visions of speculative fiction". For some reason I was hoping for Science Fiction, but got more fantasy and not much of it that extreme. Some of the stories were good, some were even interesting Science Fiction. I finally finished it after picking at it for a few months with an "eh." (August 30, 2005) ( )
  cindywho | May 27, 2019 |
Great collection of speculative fiction. ( )
  rbaech | Mar 8, 2009 |
This book is not Dangerous Visions. True, that is a tough standard for any book, and it is unfair to expect a book to hit that standard. Rather, if a review is going to start by comparing a book to Dangerous Visions it should only be if that is going to be a positive comparison.

But, the editor of this collection asks for the comparison. The introduction lays out the editor’s premise – to make a Dangerous Visions for the new millennium. The editor begs the comparison. The collection falls more than short. This collection has some vision, but no danger. And, maybe more importantly, there is little memorable in the stories.

I still vividly remember reading Dangerous Visions – each story impacting me. Sometimes it was a positive impact, sometimes negative. But every story left an image. I can still look at the titles and be thrown back into those memorable stories. With the pages of Redshift there is nothing memorable. I look back at the titles and recall….nothing. It is not that they are bad stories, they are just not memorable. And that is a great sin when you have set your sights so high.

Where it failed is hard to say. Was it that it takes an Ellisonesque approach to get the best out of people? Was it because this book seemed to lack new, groundbreaking authors? Was it that there just isn’t anything dangerous to be said anymore?

I refuse to believe the last is true. I think there are stories out there that shatter with skill. And I appreciate that the editor tried to do something more than collect new stories. But maybe the greatest failing of this collection is not that it didn’t live up to the hype of being the next Dangerous Visions. Maybe the greater failing is that it became a collection of stories that were just…okay. ( )
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Benford, GregoryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Hand, ElizabethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Redshift: Doppler effect evidenced by a move toward the red end of the spectrum, indicating motion away from Earth - as in an expanding universe.
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To Harlan, of course
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An expanding universe - that's what this book is about
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This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works. All-new, original stories by € Ursula K. Le Guin € Gregory Benford € Joe Haldeman € Joyce Carol Oates € and many others

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"On K2 with Kanakaredes" - Dan Simmons
"The Building" - Ursula K. Le Guin
"Froggies" - Laura Whitton
"What We Did That Summer" - Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
"A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club" - Michael Moorcock
"In Xanadu" - Thomas M. Disch
"Commencement" - Joyce Carol Oates
"Unique Visitors" - James Patrick Kelly
"Black Tulip" - Harry Turtledove
"Belief" - P. D. Cacek
"In the Un-Black" - Stephen Baxter
"Weeping Walls" - Paul Di Filippo
"Anomalies" - Gregory Benford
"Captive Kong" - Kit Reed
"Feedback" - Robert E Vardeman
"Between Disappearances" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Resurrection" - David 'Vlorrell
"Cleopatra Brimstone" - Elizabeth Hand
"Burros Gone Bad" - Peter Schneider
"Pockets" - Rudy Rucker and John Shirlev
"Ave de Paso" - Catherine Asaro
"Road Kill" - Joe Haldeman
"Ting-a-Ling" - Jack Dann
"'Bassador" - Catherine Wells
"Ssoroghod's People" - Larry Niven
"Two Shot" - Michael Marshall Smith
"Billy the Fetus" - Al Sarrantonio
"Viewpoint" -Gene Wolfe
"Fungi" - Ardath Mayhar
"Rhido Wars" - Neal Barrett, Jr.
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