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There were some stories I quite liked in this collection but, overall, I was disappointed. I expected some fun escapism and found there were a lot of morality tales and depressing depictions of superheros. Just not what I was looking for, I guess.
Anthologies are always a mixed bag, but this one produced a good number of honourable mentions:Pssst! Have You Heard ... The Rumor?Black SheepMidnight Man vs Doctor DeathThe Rise and Fall of Captain Stupendius
I'm not going to give this one a star rating. I find anthologies to be really hit-and-miss, and this one had more misses for me than hits, but I don't want to unfairly drag down the stories I did like. "The Island Way", "Bloodhound", "Lost and Found", "Crusher and Typhoon", "Black Sheep", and "Bedtime for Superheroes" were the ones I liked best - I'd definitely read more stories set in those worlds.
Some of the stories were more inventive and well-written than others, but the whole book was an interesting look at science fiction written in another part of the world.
I found this a bit of a slog. As is to be expected with an anthology, some stories were better than others. I enjoyed "Bedtime for Superheroes" by Leigh Wallace, "The Island Way" by Mary Pletsch and Dylan Blacquiere, and "Spirit in the Clay" by Bevan Thomas, because really, a story where Mackenzie King summons the ghost of a soldier to possess the Golem of Prague kind of hits all my interests. But many of the stories were just trying a little too hard to be cute.
This book...I can't seem to get through it. That doesn't mean it is bad, but it is just hard for me to gwt through. There are 2 main reasons for that: they are short stories AND they are all written by different authors. There are definitely good things about both of those reasons, but for me it just creates reasons to put it aside and pick up another book instead.That aside, I can't really get over the fact that to me the worst story of the ones I have read is put first. It gave me such a bad i...
More of a 2.5 actually. Explanations will be up on the blog in a couple of hours. (THESMELLOFBOOKS on tumblr.)
This latest installment in a yearly compendium of science fiction and fantasy stories from Canada focuses on superheroes. It involves a lot more than constant battles against Dr. Bad Guy.A female super-villain breaks out of prison and crashes her family's barbecue, in order to visit her dying grandmother. The rest of the family is not thrilled about her sudden appearance. When a superhero is injured in battle, does he or she go to the local hospital, or to a special superhero hospital? After the...
As with any collection by a variety of authors, some works enchanted me more than others. That said, this collection of superhero stories definitely enchanted more than it disenchanted. With a charming mix of villains, anti-heroes, heroes, and the common superman or superwoman, these stories let you glimpse a peek behind the curtain. The retired, the ones who didn't catch their big break, the few who saw themselves become the villain ... an interesting mix of humour, style, and adventure. Like '...
Beyond the MasksA review of "Tesseracts Nineteen: Superhero Universe" Edited by Mark Shainblum and Claude Lalumiere (Edge, 2016).By Derek Newman-StilleSo often the superhero genre is treated as infantile, low brow, and therefore as un-valuable. Yet, the superhero has become our modern fairy tale, a transposition of the magical into the urban, replacing fairy godmothers with scientific experiments gone wrong. They still construct the brave princes and princesses facing off against the evil witche...
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers.It's a solid short story collection about various superheroes, all set in Canada. There are a few stories in here that aren't that good, but on the whole it's a nice set. Most are well worth a read.My favourites were Lost and Found (I wouldn't mind reading an entire novel of this), Black Sheep, Bedtime for Superheroes (lovely little slice of life piece) and SÜPER (again, one that I'd really like to see expanded into an enti...
