With the Craigslist of the future, apply for a job on Mars. In the maps of the past, learn the secrets of using dessicated penguin feet as an explo...
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Feb 16, 2010
Alan
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There's a way to beat Sturgeon's Law, and it is to collect, to distill, to filter out the crud until you have synthesized something that beats the odds. I won't pretend that I thought every story in this anthology was a winner, but the percentage is very high. Take the itchy inventiveness of Mercurio D. Rivera's "Snatch Me Another," which adds a brilliant little bit of speculative technology to human characters who probably would act just that way. Or the way Jason Stoddard takes two s
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Dec 01, 2011
Beth
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Clearly I need to explore the world of online science fiction and fantasy further. This collection had a delicious array of inventive speculative fiction. "Air and Angels" painted a gorgeously realized early-20th-century culture, "Snatch Me Another" was chillingly realistic in its portrayal of human abuse of a new multiple-universe technology, "First Rites" was pure beauty amidst the grittiness of the near future, and...explore all these stories for yourself. The s
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Mar 22, 2010
Becca
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This is an excellent set of stories. I didn't relate to all of them, but I could see that they were good. I especially loved the last one (okay, maybe I was biased because of the title).
Feb 26, 2010
Interesting concept. Almost all of the stories were good and interesting; some were even better than good.
Sep 16, 2010
Molly
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Some really excellent new sci-fi stories here; I was disappointed when they were all gone.
Sep 23, 2010
Jason
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Like most compilations, there are some hits & misses here. Overall I found them enjoyable though. My favorite was probably "Snatch Me Another", which strokes my fetish of "here's a revolutionary scifi invention, let's look at the moral/societal ramifications of it".
Feb 21, 2010
Josh
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Love the Hal Duncan story, and the Cory Doctorow one. On hold with my other short story collections.
Jan 21, 2012
emily
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Above average for a story collection without a real theme. Though I skipped the first story after a couple of pages, the next one made me glad I kept reading, and on the whole these stories are excellent.
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