very good- as expected- with notable shorts by RC Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Peter Watts, Brian Stableford, Charles Obberndof The rest are decent to good, with a weak or so thrown in Worth the read and worth revisiting

This is a solid collection with few really standout stories--on the whole, the stories are notable for the variety of science fictional ideas/settings applied rather than compelling writing or emotional impact. Some exceptions include "Donovan Sent Us," by Gene Wolfe, Robert Charles Wilson's "This Peaceable Land," and "The Calculus Plague" by Marisa Lingen. Unlike most of the others, these stories lingered in my mind for some time.

Read only the first two stories and I just couldn't continue it was so bad! :SNeither of these first two stories are sci-fi and neither of them was short either! :S...it was a struggle to read! ...maybe one day I will come back to this but highly possible I will just give it to charity all together* Sadly I did pick it up and finished it /well skipped 1 or 2 stories because they were so boring/, I wish I didn't: this book is just VERY BAD!! Waste of time!!

Thought it was Science Fiction but turned out to be Speculative Fiction. Some stories seemed a bit far-fetched.

I found this collection of SF stories fairly mediocre. Many of the stories never seemed to get close to the exceptional level that I hope for in a book labled "The Year's Best" and most of those that start out promising have sloppy, poorly executed endings. A good story with a poor ending (note: I'm not talking about a good ending that I wish resolved differently, I'm talking about endings that seem to be tacked on without thought or care) is always a huge dissapointment to me. This is the only

Ugh. Am I just getting older, or are these stories hackeyed and pretentious?

life-long love/hate relationship with sci-fi continues... so many great ideas, all brought down to the level of realism. this book made me want to go outside and run.

Favorite stories:"infinities"/Vandana Singh. Aging mathematician finds solace in the math of infinity from reality of life. "The Unstrung Zither"/Yoon Ha Lee. Space opera meets Asian Culture with a Manga/Anime' feel."The Island"/Peter Watts. Great Space Opera with an out of the box look at alien life."The Highway Code"/Brian Stableford. Robots, morality and freewill."The Fixation"/Alistair Reynolds. Spreading entropy across multiverses to repair antiquities can be dangerous."Another Life"/Charl...

Recent Reads: Year's Best SF 15. David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's 2010 anthology is an interesting tour through early short fiction from many of today's best known authors (as well as those who were at the peak of their careers at the time). An excellent collection of fiction.

I picked this up in an airport at the start of a week of 7 flights. Great variety of stories of different types. Not all 100% my taste but many of them were and all of them were clearly though provoking. Favourite pieces? Stephen Baxter, Mary Robinette Kowal, Brian Stableford (The Highway Code), Paul Cornell,Nancy Kress (Exegesis - Frankly my dear...), Vandana Singh.

I have enjoyed several installments of this series over the years. While I certainly don't love every story selected, I find that the editors do a great job of capturing the wide variety of science fiction out there while avoiding stories that are really just some other genre (mystery, Western, romance) set on another planet or in the future. My only complaint is about the inclusion of several alternate-history pieces. I grudgingly admit that this type of speculative fiction is closer to science...

The stories were probably pretty good aside from concerns of an English language nature, and the fact that there was a glitch somewhere that divided words. There were a half dozen words that were split in half every time they appeared throughout the book. Annoying, but not a real biggie.The thing was, the book stuck to stories from a very small slice of what is considered SF - those with really complicated science in them. My last brush with chemistry and physics was in high school in the early

I absolutely love this anthology series. I'm excited for the newest installment to be released presently (I think its December) so I can get it for Christmas.my favourite anthology series, even better than the ones by my favourite authors, probably because my fav authors are also included in this brilliant collection.

Some of these stories I really liked and some of them I kind of had to force myself to read. I dislike short stories that are just confusing and ones that end just when it seems like things are starting to get going.

A good mix of short stories. As always, there were a few that didn't really do much for me, and I think too many alternate history tales for my liking, but balanced out by some nice works, some of which weren't especially deep but were effective.My favorites in this batch are probably "The Island", by Peter Watts (which I've read before, but still liked), "The Consciousness Problem" by Mary Robinette Kowal, "The Calculus Plague", by Marissa K. Lingren, and "Another Life", by Charles Oberndorf.

Short review by story:1 • Infinities by Vandana Singh: A story about maths and peaceful coexistence between religions and peoples. Also some kind of parallel universe thing. Not bad.35 • This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson: an alternative story of the end of slavery and what came after. Not bad either.65 • The Unstrung Zither by Yoon Ha Lee: Really good story about a world where music creates magic, and how it is used in war. 91 • Blac...

Bought this as an initial "experiment" for my Kindle. I have to say that I think the massive short story anthologies are perfect for this format as my library often doesn't have them or they are gigantic and unwieldy. Also, I tend to not care about reading short stories more than once or sharing them with others (one of the main disadvantages of the Kindle).Thus far I have been impressed with the stories chosen, especially the first one.

I normally like The annual Hartwell and Cramer compilations, because of their focus on pure sci fi, without much intrusion from fantasy, horror, steampunk or other subgenres that don't feel compelled to include science in their fiction. As the editors say in the introduction, "this book is full of science fiction---every story in the book is fairly clearly that and not something else." Unfortunately, the editors failed to meet their own standards this time, and included several interlopers. Thes...

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There are several good stories here, unlike many of the volumes of this series.