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I definitely think i might have enjoyed this series more if i was an avid sci-fi reader, but my heart simply connects more with fantasy and romance.With that being said i picked this book up to try and introduce myself with the genre, and while i did at times find myself dozing off at certain stories, overall there were some pretty interesting and captivating ones.I was conflicted due to the variety of authors, dus some writing styles and narratives sat well with me, while some did not.Overall i...
About 500 pages. Lots of stories, most are alright, some are confusing and a few are downright amazing. I really enjoyed reading this. However, it does require one to be focused. Sci-fi tends to be huge on concepts rather than stories. One short story, Red, is literally about a plague. Too relatable. So many other topics such as genetic engineering, AI and reliance on robots, parallel universe. It will definitely be a good read if you are not a sci-fi fan but like to have a taste of what the sto...
A surprising amount of typos. In one spot an entire three- or four-sentence paragraph is repeated two pages before it’s supposed to appear! Many of the stories were hard to get through as they’re so outdated and the science described just wrong. I wish the year the story was published was put with the title instead of at the back of the book. I didn’t think to look at the bibliography until I was nearly finished with the entire collection. Perhaps if I’d known the age of each story at the beginn...
Mediocre collection of public-domain moldy-oldies (with one or two classics thrown in - Flatland, the Piper story) and second-tier newer stories. Worth the $5.00 I paid for it, but wouldn't be worth anything more. A lot of typos.Major Gripe: the removed the diagrams from Flatland, but not the references to the diagrams? Did anyone actually edit this thing?
Some were really great and others were pretty rubbish.
Overall, most of the stories were enjoyable, and demonstrated the widest reaches of the fairly broad sci-fi scope. There were a few in the collection which reminded me why I'm sometimes hesitant to pick up sci-fi stories. A couple of the tales leaned very heavily on the psuedo-science and maths, and were too light for my tastes on the characters, world and events. The first story, for instance, was an exercise in telling, not showing, written in the kind if style I would expect notes for a story...
I picked this up on a whim, mainly on the promise of the new stories it contained. To be honest they were not to my tastes; nothing wrong about them but, then again, nothing right.Thankfully this volume contained old favorites that for one reason or another have gone missing from my bookshelf. Most were welcomed back, however the 49 pages of Flatland could, I think, have been better served with newer work. And if I'd not lost them half the book would have been redundant.If, as the publisher's no...
A good collection of short stories ranging on a revolution happening in a two dimensional world through to the first impressions of a caregiver robot after meeting their human family.The stories are well written and memorable. Some are quite thought provoking, certainly worth reading.
Care and Feeding is my favourite story by Darusha. I am her number one fan boy: I have read all of her work. This is the best.
I'm planning to make a list of best stories in the book, but I haven't find the way to put them in order, so I'll let it on hold for now. They're good in general, some of the stories are really short and it's fine, others are way too long for my taste and for a few I would liked to read a longer and more developed version of the story. However, it's a great compilation for all the tastes.
Not a review. Includes a reprint of my story "Overlap."
I loved the majority of the stories, there were a few i skipped because i just wasnt into them, but many left me wanting to know what happened next!
Found it in audio on escapepod.org podcast site:http://escapepod.org/2012/11/15/ep369...Written from a robot's point of view, this story is something else - intelligent, well written and with a bitter-sweet humor to it. Not to give away any spoilers, reasoning of an AI helper sounded convincing and logical(remember Data and his troubles with humans?) and the point the story is underlining is skilfully painted by AI's computing vs reality of human relations with its illogical and unwritten rules....
So far only read:Makeisha in Time by Rachael K. Jones - 5*That story was amazing. I enjoyed every moment in the story. I can feel that growing urge to find everything she has written and see what I have been missing out on my whole life. What can I say without spoiling any of it? A woman whose "base" is in our time keeps traveling back in time. Moments here, in this time, when she is "suffering a migraine" are lifetimes in another time. (view spoiler)[After awhile she starts reviewing history bo...
