Omni Best Science Fiction Two

Omni Best Science Fiction #2

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Lucius Shepard (Contributor), Elizabeth Hand (Contributor)

All the perfumes of Araby / Lucius Shepard
The robot and the one you love / Tom Maddox
Chimera Dreams / Gregg Keizer
The pear-shaped man / George R.R. Martin
Kingdom Come / Bruce McAllister
Mother's Milt / Pat Cadigan
Black velvet / Maggie Flinn
One small step for Max / Dan Simmons
The cave painting / Garry Kilworth
In the month of Athyr / Elizabeth Hand.

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction

250 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

Reviews

[Dan Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good anthology, some hits and one full miss. Black Velvet was weak enough I didn’t bother to finish it.

Kingdom Come and the Pear Shaped Man were standouts.

[Iain · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Reread)

A decent anthology with a heavy focus on romances and two humour stories from Pat Cadigan and Dan Simmons. The GRRM story 'The Pear-Shaped Man' is head and shoulders above the rest, but Elizabeth Hand's 'In The Month Of Athyr' and Bruce McAllister's 'Kingdom Come' are at least interesting.