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Often reads like an op-ed rant in the Daily Telegraph or Spectator. Odd claims that playing with Lego as an adult leads to frequenting adult champagne hostess bars and strip clubs, which I associate more with CEOs and investment bankers (but maybe they are like teenagers).
An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment …
Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a …
good collection
I think I only skipped one story and abandoned another - otherwise a good collection.
Sex transitions are easy in some stories, and it's made clear that sex and reproduction are separate. This leads to some intergenerational relationships that would make even Gentry Lee blush.
An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment …
I bought this to see if ParSec magazine could replace Interzone (after 2 lifetime subs then a 6 issue sub, I now find Interzone boring). The stories all seemed to be well written and quality stories, but mostly uninteresting. I finished 4 stories, and particularly enjoyed the Ken MacLeod and Gwyneth Jones contributions, which isn't surprising. The rest were fantasy/horror/adjacent genres which I am not interested in.
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his …
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known …
The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, …
An okay collection - varied stories with the author's tongue in cheek style.
Great book. A fascinating look at how the concept of "Europe" was invented, and how most ideas of European exceptionalism before the colonial period are wrong (the relevant parts of Europe were on the periphery of where the real action was happening)
