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I'm not a huge fan of "hard" sci fi, so my review is probably a little biased. Then again, most readers of hard sci fi might say that's not that this is. Regardless, it is an entertaining volume of stories. Some really good authors contributed to this one, and some of the stories are very good. Some of them just didn't do it for me. This one was hard for me to rate because as I stated this isn't my usual genre, but it was well worth a read and I don't regret giving it a try. I would be open to r...
Theme: Utopia"The Way of Cross and Dragon" - Space-traveling Catholic high Inquisitor encounters a heretic faith that has made a saint of Judas Iscariot. His investigation may test even his own faith. -- A very interesting take on religion. Easy to believe. 4.5 stars."The Thirteenth Utopia" - Very similar to the previous story in that it has a space-traveling inquisitor and a faith-challenging discovery. However, this was much more fanciful and relied on some serious future technology instead of...
This is a volume of Wollheim's picks of the best short science fiction that appeared in 1979. I believe this is the sixteenth of his annual best anthologies. I didn't think any of the stories were truly classics this year. I liked the stories by Connie Willis, Joanna Russ (a nice Verne homage, and one of the few things by Russ I ever read in which she didn't sound angry), Orson Scott Card, and particularly The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin... which may presage philosophical thoug...
Again, like the others in this series, some stories are very good to good but most are on the verge of terrible.
Occasionally I come across a library book that I consider stealing. Now, I want to make quite clear that I have never stolen a book from a public library and do not condone stealing books from libraries. In fact, I think people who steal stuff from public libraries should be shot. But still I can't help at times be tempted. This is such a book to trigger tempting thoughts of theft.1979 was apparently a banner year in science fiction because this anthology is amazing. The only low point (and it r...
I collect these anthologies, and I'm currently reading or rereading them all and keeping track of my thoughts on each story.First off, this particular collection's intro contains some stuff about 'primitive cultures' which has shall we say not aged well. It bothers me when sci fi types feel we have nothing to learn from any human culture that hasn't reached a certain level of technological advancement; humans are humans, and every human culture has something to tell us about ourselves as a speci...
I would pick up these annuals as I found them as their content was generally pretty good. This was read during the 1983/84 winter break from school.
What this collection demonstrates best for me was how much the science fiction genre was in need of new life at this point. These stories are not bad but a half of them are just rehashing past glories whilst the other half are willing to push out into new areas:The Way of the Cross and the Dragon by George RR Martin: This is well written but a really sententious anti-religious tract, a path that had been so well trodden by this point it was practically worn away.The Thirteenth Utopia by S. P. So...
