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This anthology offered me a much needed panorama of up-and-coming writers in the fields of the fantastic. Kudos to M. David Blake for compiling such a gargantuan book with so few errors: as a fellow anthologist, I am awed.I've listed the authors I may try more of or will watch for here:https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtop...- - -Update 2014-08-18: Congratulations to Sofia Samatar and Benjanun Sriduangkaew on their results in the 2014 John W. Campbell Award.
38252 locations of sci-fi goodness, and it's free, peoples!!!Download links here.
Ania Ahlborn - Novel excerpt: Seed - Liked. Seems like it might be a good horror novel.Alisa Alering - Short Story: “The Wanderer King” - Neutral.Laurel Amberdine - Flash: “Airship Hope” - Liked.Athena Andreadis - Short Story: “The Wind Harp” - Neutral.
Holy moley! This one took me five years to finish. Admittedly I was just reading for a couple of hours at a time every few months, then realized I was at the 80% mark so went at it steadily for the last two weeks to finish. The primary virtues of this collection are size and variety. There were a lot of authors eligible for the Campbell Prize in 2014, and most of them agreed to have a sample in here.Unfortunately, due to how long it took me to finish, the vast majority of the stories have faded
I feel I have to rate this as five stars simply for the sheer volume of stories collected in this volume. I didn't like all of them, but I did like a majority of them. And those that I didn't like I at least enjoyed the idea behind them. I cannot wait until next year's collection. Thank you!
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous calendar years.This massive anthology attempts to gather together all the works eligible for the award in 2014. Of course, not every potentially eligible author could be contacted and give permission to republish in time. But the result was 29 novel excerpts, 15 novelettes, 113 short stories, 26 flash fiction pie...
I just have to admit this thing is too large for my attention span and free time right now. Maybe someday, but I doubt it. This is a daunting thing. Kudos to the folks who put this together and I wish I could give it the time it deserves. Even with this, I unabashedly skipped novel excerpts and I required that short fiction grab me by the throat. Gotta be brutal with 800,000 words in this thing. The Saltwater African was the first story in this collection that gut-punched me. Great stuff there.
This is a great free read for sci-fi lovers. I skipped around in it, reading mostly the short stories, some which were awesome -- see especially "Selkie stories are for Losers" and "Her words like hunting Vixens in the Spring" I didn't finish the whole anthology -but still worth it. Did I mention it's free?
