Using my usual anthology rating method here... Rate the individual stories and then deriving the overall rating from the averages. Lightspeed: Year One had a mean of 3.532 and a median of 3.5; Goodreads doesn't do half-stars, so I'll round up. But I'm rounding up mostly because I'm really favorable on the editor, and one of my friends is a slush reader for them. (Also the fiction I'm otherwise reading in the magazine is consistently great.)Breaking it down...• "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See Yo...

a good collection of many talented authors, good lunchtime reading

most of the stories were enjoyable with one or two exceptions.

I'm dazzled and full-up of beautiful ideas...left as breathless and grinning as I can remember. This is science fiction as science fiction should damn well be.

A good selection of science fiction short stories. Some were great, others were so-so (as you'd expect in an anthology).The ones that stood out:- Arvies (Adam-Troy Castro): Humanity has developed to where those who are worth anything stay in a perpetual fetal state and experience life through those who are physically born (and thus are Dead and have no rights). Makes you think about how we define human worth.- More Than the Sum of His Parts (Joe Haldeman): An engineer suffers an accident and has...

An entire year's worth of Lightspeed magazine's content on one volume.There's a varied, intelligent and entertaining selection of styles and subjects all loosely coming under the sci-fi banner. I don't want to spoil things for the new reader describing the stories or even highlighting a few favourites. Suffice to say that in my 50 years of reading sci-fi, this is the first volume of short stories I've ever read twice within six months.None of the tales are overly long or taxing on the brain. Per...

This audio anthology includes a selection of the best sci-fi short stories from online sci-fi magazine Lightspeed's first year. It has taken over a year for me to get through all the stories in this collection which is a fair reflection on the varying quality of the content. This was not the greatest collection of short stories I've ever encountered. There was a few decent ones but most are sub-par reads. I'll go ahead and share some small thoughts on each individual story."The Cassandra Project...

Fun collection with a couple of stories in it good enough to make me put the book down and just think about the story for a while. Not as good as the Science Fiction Hall of Fame collections, but it is about level with the SFWA Grand Masters collections.

Too much negativity. Sorry.

Short stories...some good some okay some not so good. Have to check it out again to finish.

When I first began reading science fiction, in the mid-1970s, most of the stories I read were short stories. I devoured short SF for many years, largely because there were so many collections available: year's best, Hugo winners, Nebula winners, hall of fame, single-author collections, golden age magazine collections, etc. Nowadays, however, I rarely read short SF. Mostly, I read novels, and novels have been getting longer and longer since word processing made editing so much easier. So it was a...

This book is such a grab-bag of stories that it's difficult to review. It starts off with several hopeful, sweet stories, sprinkling a few award-winners that had me tearing up joyfully and entices me to read further. For the middle stretch of the book, I found an abhorrent stretch of seemingly pointless body horror, gore, and death and despair that almost had me skipping over stories. The nice thing about it is they're short stories, so you don't have to suffer through the bad ones for so long.

This collection of stories from the first year of Lightspeed Magazine (2010) is enjoyable, but a bit uneven. Because most of the stories are less than 15 pages in length, even the ones I didn't like I could finish. My favorite two stories were also the two that were finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award (no surprise) and I particularly liked the fact that I could pick up the book, read one story, and then put it down without any being dragged back in as I would be with a novel. I intend to

Stories I liked (in no particular order):"Cats in Victory" by David Barr Kirtley"...For a Single Yesterday" by George R.R. Martin"Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due"Beachworld" by Stephen King"Standard Loneliness Package" by Charles Yu"Ej-Es" by Nancy Kress"The Observer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Jenny's Sick" by David Tallerman"Cucumber Gravy" by Susan Palwick"The Passenger" by Julie E. Czerneda"Gossamer" by Stephen Baxter"All that Touches the Air" by An Owomoyela"Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling"Th...

My second anthology of the year, and another really good one! This is a nice thick collection of short stories that were published in the magazine Light Speed; I read a lot of authors I hadn't seen before, and will be looking for..Many of the stories are haunting; some are horrific (in a very well written way). In this vein is the half-fairy tale, half apocalypse of Joe Lansdale's"Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back", which involves a man getting a tattoo of his deceased daughter; John Fu...

There's a lot here to like, and I imagine something for just about everyone.

Terrible. The only thing saving it from one star is that there were a couple of good stories, but I didn't find one until almost 2/3 of the way through the collection of short stories published by the journal of the title."In Falll", by Ted Kosmatka was the first one that was good, then Susan Palwick's "Cucumber Gravy" was also enjoyable. They're two very different stories but both were well done. "Saying the Names", by Maggie Smith, wasn't as good, but was also one of the very few that were abo...

Almost every time I read an anthology and regardless of genre, I ask myself, "How did this story get published?" or "What did the editor see in this story that I'm not seeing?" or "If this got published, what did they pass up?" or something similar.That held here, as well. I got to Joe Haldeman's "More than the Sum of His Parts," recognized I'd read it at least once before and enjoyed it, and enjoyed it again. Ken Liu's story was a gem. One or two others caught my attention long enough to get to...

This audiobook version of an anthology from 2011 was solid throughout, with even the stories I liked less showing excellent attention to craft. The only one I'd ready before was the Hugo-Award nominated story Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn with its taut description of a near future communal society. The other ones are as different from it as can be, which I felt makes the collection stronger as a result. The audio version of the anthology has twenty-five stories in all out of the several dozen print...

A big anthology that shares the hit and misses of big anthologies. Some big name authors don't always deliver their best work, but everything is consistently good.I liked how the editor grouped the stories, it sometimes seems like there were themes running through consecutive readings. It made it easier(fun) to string together a long reading session.This book was from 2011 and there were two apocalyptic - pandemic stories. I found both missed the mark, but nonetheless haunting given I was readin...