An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could ha...
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Apr 29, 2009
Liviu
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Just a great collection and all that Eclipse 1 promised but did not quite deliver for me - Eclipse 1 had good tales but they ran towards slipstream and fantasy and there it's hit or miss.
Eclipse 2 is solidly sf and has brilliant masterpiece stories from Tony Daniel, Ted Chiang, superb stories from A. Reynolds and David Moles and great stories from S. Baxter, J. Ford, K. Scholes, T. Dowling and P. Cornell with the rest not that interesting for me, but the stories that connected More...
Nov 23, 2009
Lightreads
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Stories Jonathan Strahan likes round two: more scifi, fewer women. I picked through this over several months, so random impressions from stories actually interesting enough to remember:
Ted Chiang, "Exhalation": The reason I picked up the collection, and totally worth it. Classic Chiang, if a bit didactic in that way he can pull off. I won't bother trying to describe it, because it's available here and you should all go read it.
Stephen Baxter, "Turing's Appl More...
Ted Chiang, "Exhalation": The reason I picked up the collection, and totally worth it. Classic Chiang, if a bit didactic in that way he can pull off. I won't bother trying to describe it, because it's available here and you should all go read it.
Stephen Baxter, "Turing's Appl More...
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Feb 13, 2011
Hirondelle
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Of course I bought it for the Chiang story and read it first. And it´s sublime, as usual, just perfect. Though I am pretty sure I am missing theories about what universe it really describes (chromium sphere?).
Of the rest I am trying to read by order:
The Hero by Karl Schroeder - me shallow but did not get into at the first pages and quit.
Turing´s Apples by Stephen Baxter - oh dear, the future it describes looks more like what the 20th century expected the 21st More...
Of the rest I am trying to read by order:
The Hero by Karl Schroeder - me shallow but did not get into at the first pages and quit.
Turing´s Apples by Stephen Baxter - oh dear, the future it describes looks more like what the 20th century expected the 21st More...
Feb 12, 2011
Klytia
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Contiene il racconto Exhalation vincitore del premio Hugo 2009, sezione racconti brevi.
Storia ambientata in un mondo di metallo, abitato da “persone” che una volta al giorno si ritrovano a socializzare al self-service dei “polmoni" e di come una di queste cerchi letteralmente all'interno di se stesso la natura della sua esistenza.
Inquietante racconto del sempre ottimo Chiang.
Storia ambientata in un mondo di metallo, abitato da “persone” che una volta al giorno si ritrovano a socializzare al self-service dei “polmoni" e di come una di queste cerchi letteralmente all'interno di se stesso la natura della sua esistenza.
Inquietante racconto del sempre ottimo Chiang.
Feb 10, 2009
Noah
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I've read about half of the stories in this anthology, so unless the other half are absolute shit I feel comfortable in rating it.
Ted Chiang, Alastair Reynolds, and Stephen Baxter all have wonderful, interesting stories in there. Especially the Ted Chiang story "Exhalation." God that was amazing.
Ted Chiang, Alastair Reynolds, and Stephen Baxter all have wonderful, interesting stories in there. Especially the Ted Chiang story "Exhalation." God that was amazing.
Apr 16, 2009
Carl
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Worth it for Peter Beagle's "The Rabbi's Hobby". Also includes Ted Chiang's Hugo-nominated "Exhalation", and many other fine stories. Margo Lanagan's "Night of the Firstlings" could be an excerpt from the Ace double novel "God of Chaos/Thing With Three Souls".
Mar 31, 2009
Only have read the 2009 Hugo Nominee, "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang, available for download in multiple versions at http://www.nightshadebooks.com/downloads
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