An anthology of stories that I bought, and read, pretty much on the basis of the James S.A. Corey story, Drive. I'm loving Corey's Expanse series but I'm reading them faster than he's writing them, so the opportunity to pick up another one of his prequel short-stories (with a bunch of other authors that I hadn't read before) was too good to miss. The third story in the book, Drive is a human-interest story revolving around the relationship between Solomon Epstein (yes, that Solomon Epstein) and

My review and rating are solely for two fine stories, both available online:Merged review:The standout story for me was "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan, a Hugo-winner and an easy 5-stars for me. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cadig...Another good one: "Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh" by John Barnes — http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barne...Here's the detailed review of the anthology to read, by G33z3r : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I remember liking th...

“The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan- Interesting ideas, but unfortunately doesn't bother to explain basically anything, so it gets a bit deliberately confusing.“The Deeps of the Sky” by Elizabeth Bear- A story told from the p-o-v of an alien. Really liked it.“Drive” by James S.A. Corey- Gives some background to tech in the Expanse books. Apparently scientists work on their own, without failsafes then...also, gritty inter-personal stuff.“The Road to NPS” by Sandra McDonald and

A pretty good anthology. Like nearly all sci-fi anthologies, the quality was a little uneven, but the winners were good enough to counterbalance the rare clunker. Anyone that reads my reviews knows I grade on a bell-curve, so 3 stars means 'I enjoyed it, but not one of my favorites.' I wish GR did half-stars.Of particular note was 'Drive,' the first story in the Expanse series (at least, in terms of the series' chronology. I'm not sure when it was written). That, alone, will sell a lot of copies...

The Infinity Project had a good first book, but I'm really impressed by book 2 - really, the only reason the 4.5 stars is rounded down is because I'm trying to be more strict with my five star reviews (enthusiasm just gets the better of me).But there's plenty to be excited by here! The theme of this facet of Infinity is man's first steps into the solar system - and we get some great takes on it. James S.A. Corey contributed a prequel story from his Expanse series, and it's clear that this is his...

Best anthology of 2012 with great stories by Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, James S.A. Corey, John Barnes, Paul McAuley, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi and Alastair Reynolds.

A solid collection. So many seemed like they could be larger stories, and ended up being largely about world-building; only a few had a conclusion that really concluded (most end with a move to something new for the characters). If that frustrates you, maybe steer clear, but if that entices you, a worthy read! All hang solidly on the theme about 'frontier' space colonies, early in their days, where so much remains formative and in flux.

Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the AA are over.

This is an amazing collection of contemporary space-oriented scifi, mostly bent towards the weird, optimistic, and humanistic. Mosts fans will probably pick this up on the strength of a favorite name or three, since a good chunk of the last few decades is represented, but I enjoyed every story. All of them deal with space as a canvas for our ambitions, and ways in which those ambitions mix and collide. The stories are set within the solar system, so no FTL and only a few aliens, but that only in...

Finished the anthology which i bought 2 days ago for the Baxter/Reynolds/McAuley stories and they delivered“The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan- nothing for me here as the author's style just doesn't work for me; “The Deeps of the Sky” by Elizabeth Bear- a story from an alien's point of view on Jupiter; see comment above“Drive” by James S.A. Corey- excellent story set early in the Expanse; short but quite human-oriented more than anything; people discussing politics, science, e...

Nominated for the 2013 Hugo Award for novelette.I really like this story for the questions it asks. Would you change your species to survive in space?And going out for sushi isn't what you think. Definitely worth the read, and I'm still thinking.

A really good collection of short stories set around the exploration and colonisation of the solar system. While I pretty much enjoyed all the stories, the highlight was the Expanse> prequel on the live of Solomon Epstein and the story of how he came to create the drive named after him. It's a sublime piece of work on it's own by James S.A. Corey but taken into context of the series as a whole transcends this story into a 5 stars piece of work. Even if the rest of the stories in this collection

Good set of short stories about humanity's first steps into space. As with most collections they vary in quality but there are only a couple that I thought were not up to the standard of the rest. I really liked the stories from Corey, Reynolds, Barnes, Owomeyela, and Sterling. Corey's is a neat "origin story" for his Expanse series, in which he describes the mostly-accidental discovery of the Epstein drive from the point of view of its inventor, Solomon Epstein. Reynolds tells a neat story abou...

I didn't like Pat Cadigan's award-winning opener and couldn't get through the last story by Bruce Sterling, but nearly everything in between was pretty great. I've really enjoyed all the Solaris anthologies I've read so far and recommend them highly.Also, I love this cover.

I recently reviewed "Engineering Infinity." It is an anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan, as is this volume. Edge of Infinity, iis, in a sense, a sequel to Engineering Infinity. The premise is the same, put together an anthology of wonderful short works by some of today's Science Fiction and Fantasy writers.As with his previous book, Mr. Strahan has triumphed in his quest. Now, I admit, I just simply LOVE anthologies since I can read shorts works by some of my favorite writers and I am introduc...

An impressive amount of worldbuilding for a novelette. Clever, original premise with a good sense of humor from its narrator. Although it was hard to follow, I enjoyed the detailed zaniness of it all, which is actually treated pretty seriously for such an oddball premise.

This Hard SF novelette was originially published in Edge of Infinity and won the Hugo and Locus novelette awards 2013. I've read it as part of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection.She tells the story set a couple of generations in the future solar system from the perspective of a transhuman octopus - one form of the eponymous "sushi" - mining, building and cleaning up around Jupiter's orbit. It is about stellar politics - the inner "Dirt" planets versus the outer sushi pl...

In the introduction to his previous original SF anthology, Engineering Infinity, Jonathan Strahan coined the term “fourth generation science fiction” to describe where he feels science fiction is and will go in the second decade of the twenty-first century. I feel obliged to note here that Strahan’s introduction is a perfect example of what an introduction should be. It does nothing to spoil any of the joy of reading that is to follow and instead references the purpose of the anthology and posit...

I never feel that I read enough in the way of short stories, so I try to get them in through anthologies (I seem to love acquiring solely science fiction anthologies). I bought this one a while ago and am glad to have finally got around to reading it. There are some gems here and as usual, some new to me authors that I now want to seek out longer works by. The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi by Pat ConroyExcellent story & my measure of those is that I get to the end & want to know more. I hope...

another great installment in this series of anthologies