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The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF # 15
edited by Gardner Dozois check out website: www.constablerobinson.com
Oddly enough, they are all written by professional SF writers with nary a taste of a newbie amongst them. Although that might be disheartening for any neo-writer trying to sell to the publications involved, it’ll at least give you an idea of the standards they are looking for. Compared to # 14, I have to confess there was less of a struggle in reading from cover to cover without taking a break to read something else. That has to be a good sign. More so that a couple of the last stories ‘Maybe Some Time’ by Brenda W. Clough and ‘The Human Front’ by Ken MacLeod were also my favourites. The first dealing with the adjusting of a time traveller to living in a future and the second with an alternative reality in such a realistic fashion. That’s not to say the rest didn’t have any redeeming qualities. If anything, the selection is varied enough to ensure there should be something for everyone here. Probably of most importance is editor Dozois's review of SF in 2002, covering a wide-range of areas even if we were neglected again on the Internet sites. Not that we’re after fame, mind you, but it does raise some odd questions of the people who help compile his information aren’t given the full picture about the most popular SF search engine on the Net. Whatever. There are so few SF anthology books around these days, that any around should be supported and at the price above isn’t going to break your bank balance in buying a copy. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - April 2003
Other Book Reviews: April '03 Compass Reach by Mark W. Tiedmann Crossroads Of Twilight by Robert Jordan The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF #15 edited by Gardner Dozois Broken Angels by Richard Morgan How To Read Superhero Comics And Why by Geoff Klock Knight Rider Legacy by John Huth IV and Richie F. Levine Enchanted World: The Art Of Anne Sudworth. Text by John Grant The Birthday Of The World And Other Stories by Ursula LeGuin The Human Front by Ken MacLeod/A Writer’s Life by Eric Brown The Way Of The Rose by Valery Leith The Iron Chain by Steve Cockayne Orphans Of Earth by Sean Williams and Shane Dix The Poison Master by Liz Williams Angel: Impressions by Doranna Durgin Angel: Sanctuary by Jeff Mariotte The Gathering Storm by Kate Elliott Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card Other Video Reviews: April '03 The Tomorrow People 2:3: The Doomsday Men
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a little mix-up, we didn’t receive this book until much later than
normal and as you can judge by the number of pages, is also an extremely
dense read consisting of 26 short stories or novelettes. 
The
book needs a little qualification as this is what is regarded as
the cream of the crop from 2001 from various magazines. 
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