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Jedna z pěkných povídkových sbírek. Na K2 s Kanakaredesem od Dana Simmonse bylo napínavé čtení s pěknou pointou. Michael Moorcock a jeho Líný sobotní večer v surrealistickém sportovním klubu byl dost weird, ale dával smysl a dialogy měly hlavu a patu. Promoce od J. C. Oatesové byla mrazivá, plná emocí a dosti uvěřitelná.U všech povídek jsem si zpětně vybavila, o čem jsou, takže pozitivní dojem. :-)
This is a short story collection, not of 'sci-fi' but of 'speculative fiction', which seems to just be a fancy way of including weird nonsense and magical realism. There are some good stories in here which are interesting and compelling, but they are surrounded by a lot which are confusing, pointless, hard to follow, and just weird for weirdness sake.
Collectively a good mix of stories spanning speculative genres. Some you will have encountered before, or read similar takes on the themes here. If you are looking for a set to read in short bursts, it is a good choice.
Lame, bloated and derivative. That said, the second half of the collection is twice as good as the first. Books like this give anthologies a bad name. Come to think of it, I'm more often disappointed than not with collections.Stories worth reading: "Black Tulip", "In the Un-Black", "Resurrection", "Cleopatra Brimstone", "Bassador", and "Fungi." A couple others were cute, but more like extended puns or jokes than real stories.That said, three was a gift.
4/3/12: "Anomalies" by Gregory Benford4/3/12: "Burros Gone Bad" by Peter Schneider
so far, so good.This has some really touching short stories in it. More later."Resurrection" is an emotional family tale about the love between a son and a father.
Like all short story collections this had some greats, and some not-so-greats. Overall though I thought it was of higher quality than most, and definitely had a fun/different organizing theme. Well worth reading if you are a fan of science fiction.D
It's worth pointing out that 2 stars on Goodreads is "It was ok." So that's the Goodreads version of "meh" which is what this book gets. Like many collections of short stories across many genres this one set itself up for greatness by proudly touting some of the biggest names in the industry on its cover. To make it's build up that much worse, Sarrantonio went through the trouble of talking about the great Dangerous Visions collection by Harlan Ellison which is arguably the greatest collection o...
Great
Very mixed bag - mostly just okay
"The Building," by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001): 9.25 - So this seems to be it, the apotheosis of the certain type of ersatz anthropological SF, either consciously or unconsciously aping the prose style and points of academic interest of a certain (pop) anthro or ethnographic work. Le Guin comes to it honestly, as all these recent obituaries of her have noted. But, this is the most successful of those endeavors. Our story: we get an insanely top down, tell tell tell never show, description of an al...
I only read the Hoffman story.
On K2 with Kanakaredes • (2001) • novelette by Dan SimmonsThe Building • (2001) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le GuinFroggies • (2001) • novelette by Laura WhittonWhat We Did That Summer • (2001) • shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. MalzbergA Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club • (2001) • shortstory by Michael MoorcockIn Xanadu • (2001) • shortstory by Thomas M. DischCommencement • (2001) • novelette by Joyce Carol OatesUnique Visitors • (2001) • shortstory by James Patrick KellyB...
I gave this compilation 5 stars for one reason only - my wife (pen name at the time, Laura Whitton) has a short story included. It has been reviewed well, and I am privy to the full-length novel she is writing (part of a trilogy) to expand the world of "Froggies".
Hardcover from www.bookcloseouts.com This collection includes:On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan SimmonsThe Building by Ursula LeGuinFroggies by Laura WhittonWhat We Did That Summer by Kathy Koja and Barry MalzbergA Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club by Michael MoorcockIn Xanadu by Thomas M. DischCommencement by Joyce Carol OatesUnique Vistors by James Patrick KellyBlack Tulip by Harry TurtledoveBelief by P.D. CacekIn the Un-Black by Stephen BaxterWeeping Walls by Paul Di FilippoAnom...
Amazing collection of varied writers here. Well worth the purchase for Dan Simmon's story On K2 with Kanakaredes.
Somewhat unimpressive anthology without much sense of coherence - certainly not 'extreme' in any meaningful way. Mammoth anthologies tend to do this sort of thing so much better.
I'm not a big fan of short stories - they lack the depth of novels - but there are some good ones in Redshift, In the Un-Black by Stephen Baxter being my favorite new one (I've got a book by Baxter sitting on my shelf right now, unread...) and On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons an excellent re-read (Simmons' Prayers to Broken Stones is hands-down the best book of short stories I've read.)
This large book of short stories was subtitled "extreme visions of speculative fiction". For some reason I was hoping for Science Fiction, but got more fantasy and not much of it that extreme. Some of the stories were good, some were even interesting Science Fiction. I finally finished it after picking at it for a few months with an "eh." (August 30, 2005)
DNFed at 200 pages because I couldn't find anything exciting and memorable, despite the title promising "extreme visions" and weird stuff. Might be worth a reread now that some time has passed.
