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I'm used to short story anthologies being more uneven than this—the quality of this collection is overall very high, and the variety of stories is remarkable as well. Well worth the read.
There were three very good stories: The House by the Park by Lee Thomas, We Do Not Come in Peace by Christopher Barzak and The Duke of Riverside by Ellen Kushner. I’ll be reading more of these author’s works. The rest of the stories just did not hold up.
This is the first Wilde Stories collection I have read, sub-titled ‘The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction’. There are only two ‘kind of’ SF stories here, both are about AI, with the bulk being fantasy and/or horror. Same have more gay content than others. No spaceships, astronauts or even aliens. Unless you count the weird bloke on the block as an alien.Editor Steve Berman definitely needs to include a brief boilerplate explanation in each year’s edition to remind regular readers, and inform n...
Sixteen imaginative authors treat the reader to journeys to swashbuckling days, other worlds, the future and the apocalyptic hell.
The Hit to Miss ratio of this anthology continues to be unusually high.Standouts here are 'The House by the Park' by Lee Thomas, which contrasts a cosy domesticity with a creeping suburban nightmare that should be of interest to anyone who enjoyed Thomas's Lambda winning novel, The German, and 'The Duke of Riverside' by Ellen Kushner, which gives some back story sure to please Riverside fans.Special mention too to 'The Peacock', a love story between a man and a spambot that is is both laugh out
Just delightful. It's often hard to review a collection of stories by a variety of authors. But in this case, diversity truly is its strength. A couple made me laugh out loud and at least one made me shudder with horror. I'm going to check out the previous years' collections.
Wilde Stories like its namesake is out there, vivid and not afraid of speaking or living the “Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”.In this case Gay Speculative Fiction, stories gathered by Editor Steve Berman of these Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction stories. I started reading Mr. Berman’s Anthology of gay things that go bump in the night (or day) with the 2010 edition, and was impressed by its literary intelligence.Speculative Fiction is very hard to do well, even without the gay part. So find...
Some real gems in here... "The Arab's Prayer" and "Pinion" especially, but the surprise Riverside story from Ellen Kushner ("The Duke of Riverside") took the cake! I've so missed Alec and Richard :)
Last year I loved the Wilde Stories 2011 anthology, so picking up Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Steve Berman was a no brainer for me. In this year's edition, I again found excellent creative speculative fiction by favorite authors plus new-to-me authors whose works I'm going to explore in the future. The anthology begins with an excellent introduction by Berman, followed by fifteen stories and showcasing the wide range and variety he discovered in gay spec...
My review for this series:This is an excellent anthology series. The stories are thought-provoking, imaginative, and affecting. These days it feels as though gay culture has been largely assimilated into the mainstream (at least, it feels this way up here in progressive-ish northern New England), and for those of who remember how liberating and exhilarating it felt to finally discover that there were others like us and a whole culture of novels, movies, and songs about our experience, this serie...
When I cracked the spine on this book I was not really sure what to expect as I have realized that the term and category of speculative fiction can mean vastly different things to different people. By the end of the the delightful and playful introduction/preface by the editor Steve Berman I no longer cared what the term meant, I was simply convinced I was indeed in good hands for an enjoyable selection of writing. The stories are an excellent blend of strange, scary, moving, and playful. I thin...
