Year's Best SF

English language

Published Feb. 11, 1996

ISBN:
978-0-06-105641-3
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3 stars (2 reviews)

1 edition

A few bangers, and nothing really terrible in the whole book...

4 stars

Usually I finish one of these Hartwell compilations and there's something I don't like, but I get the feeling they pulled out the stops to make the first edition pop.

Most of my comments specific to stories are in other posts, but here's a last few to pad out what was in the book:

For White Hill by Joe Haldeman - Probably one of the big standouts of this book to me. It's a sci-fi romance, something we don't get to see too often, and it's done well. I honestly wanted to see where things went, but I suppose he wraps it up simply enough.

In Saturn Time by William Barton - This scratched my "I loved Andy Weir's Martian (at least the movie version)" itch. Alternate history about what if we never forsook the space program and makes you feel nostalgic for something that never was.

Coming of Age …

Review of "Year's Best SF" on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

An enjoyable enough collection, chosen for me to read by my fiancee months ago and abandoned until now.

Not quite my cup of tea, perhaps I'm not such a fan of Hard SF as I thought or those particular stories didn't quite strike me happy. Even so, interesting reads.
My particular favourites? The Ziggurat by jene Wolfe, Coming of Age in Karhide by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Hot Times in Magma City by Robert Silverberg.