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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 4 (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #4)
by
Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) ,
Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author) , Holly Black (Goodreads Author) , Michael Swanwick , Eileen Gunn , Alex Irvine , Damien Broderick , Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
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The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.
Paperback, 528 pages
Published
March 1st 2010
by Night Shade Books
(first published March 1st 2001)
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What is the point of fantasy? I'll tell you. It's there to give reviewers of hard core pornography something to plug the gap after their sexual appetites have been slaked and they find themselves at a loose end in the middle of a long, lonely, sleepless night. So, having been afflicted with a lazy libido recently, I picked up a copy of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 4 by Jonathan Strahan published by Nightshade Books of San Francisco.
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I bought this primarily to have an e-book version of Ellen Kushner's "A Wild and Wicked Youth", but I found so many other truly delightful stories, I'm really glad that I did. I'm not really a scifi fan, but more stories like Nicola Griffith's "It Takes Two" and Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear's astounding "Mongoose" could easily win me over. On the fantasy side, Margo Lanagan's "Ferryman", Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn's "Zeppelin City" (!!!), and Kij's Johnson's enthralling "The Cat Wh...more
Maybe there is a reason I don't read much adult sci fi. A couple of these stories were good, but some--like the one about the rape of a human woman by some sort of amoeba-like alien which goes on for months or years--just freaked me out.
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I really love every other story in this book, so it's hard to give it a rating. LOVE LOVE LOVE the Catherynne Valentine story, 2nd to last.
A really great and diverse collection of speculative fiction short stories. I thoroughly enjoyed it
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