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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader
A new series of books, or so we hope. I read this fully expecting not to like the fantasy part as much as the SF part, and that certainly turned out to be the case. What I have basically classified as SF to myself averages around 3.80, the fantasy part, 3.60.Anyway, I have always looked at these sort of things as Best SF with bonus material.In fact, fantasy is broadly defined here, from with boys, to child slaughtering horror.The breakdown of genre is SF a bit under half - and the odd nebulous story that you could call SF would take it a bit over half, for those that are mostly interested in this as a science fiction book. For the rest, perhaps 60:40 fantasy to horror, by my classification, for those interested in that sort of thing one way or the other.The editor gives a brief introduction, which is an historical overview of various 'Year's Best' series, and his own favorite editors of the past. Not sure whether it is short of choice, or for space reasons as he was trying to pack in as much story as possible. If that is the case, then perhaps publishers in a similar situation could consider longer editorial introduction with perhaps a url in the book, or even that as an excerpt or promo.The story intros are brief, with a little bit of biography, and a little bit of introduction, and keeps to the right side of the line of reading like advertising. Speaking of which, this book actually has relevant advertisements for other books by the publisher. Normally, most people don't like advertising, but in the case of books, I find it good to have what else is available, with publisher's URL prominently available. Even if you just do the old fashioned one page list like was done in the past, that is fine. However, in this case you exactly get pretty high quality cover reproduction and blurbs, so quite well done.So, to rate this, I give the SF part a 4.5, and the fantasy part a 4. If you like the non-SF genres more, I would think you are likely to call it the reverse.SF and F Best 01 : How To Talk To Girls At Parties - Neil Gaiman.SF and F Best 01 : El Regalo - Peter S. BeagleSF and F Best 01 : I Row-Boat - Cory DoctorowSF and F Best 01 : In The House Of The Seven Librarians - Ellen KlagesSF and F Best 01 : Another Word For Map Is Faith - Christopher RoweSF and F Best 01 : Under Hell, Over Heaven - Margo LangananSF and F Best 01 : Incarnation Day - Walter Jon Williams.SF and F Best 01 : The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford.SF and F Best 01 : A Siege Of Cranes - Benjamin RosenbaumSF and F Best 01 : Halfway House - Frances Hardinge.SF and F Best 01 : The Bible Repairman - Tim PowersSF and F Best 01 : Yellow Card Man - Paolo BacigalupiSF and F Best 01 : Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - Geoff RymanSF and F Best 01 : The American Dead - Jay LakeSF and F Best 01 : The Cartesian Theater - Robert Charles WilsonSF and F Best 01 : Journey Into The Kingdom - M. RickertSF and F Best 01 : Eight Episodes - Robert ReedSF and F Best 01 : The Wizards of Perfil - Kelly LinkSF and F Best 01 : The Saffron Gatherers - Elizabeth HandSF and F Best 01 : D.A - Connie WillisSF and F Best 01 : Femaville 29 - Paul Di FilippoSF and F Best 01 : Sob In The Silence - Gene Wolfe.SF and F Best 01 : The House Beyond Your Sky - Benjamin RosenbaumSF and F Best 01 : The Djinn's Wife - Ian McDonaldOrdinary party and alien chicks = run away.3.5 out of 5Witch boy sororal rescue.4 out of 5Asimovian reef revival survival.4.5 out of 5Taxonomically sheltered upbringing.4 out of 5Religiously correct landscaping writ large.3 out of 5Purgatory point scoring.3.5 out of 5Parental supervision control program subversion.4.5 out of 5Death booze corpse recall putdown getaway.4 out of 5Witch girl's zombie baby scorched earth revenge.4.5 out of 5Butterfly piecemeal.2.5 out of 5Broken soul ghost ransomer's burning to edit.3 out of 5Fallen biotech magnate takes insults badly.4 out of 5Surfeit of spirits.3 out of 5Tomb s*x death escape is smoking.4 out of 5AI's secret hiring post double death act suic1de promotion of philosophy.4 out of 5Rules for snogging. 1. Check for life. 2. Check if human.3 out of 5Tv invasion cancelled. Maybe.4 out of 5Scary sorcery lacks youthful replenishment.4 out of 5Archaeological expedition earthquake overflight.3.5 out of 5Space cadet Shanghai surprise.4 out of 5Tsunami refugeee imagineering exodus.4 out of 5Horrific writer's fate well deserved.4 out of 5Making a universal mess of it.2.5 out of 5Computer cops crimp AI's carnal cavorting with calisthenic chick.4 out of 54.5 out of 5
4.0 out of 5 stars Good stories; one HUGE drawback
There are some good stories here, but be forewarned: The digital version has NO clickable contents/index. This is the sole aspect that kept me from giving this volume five stars. It is so annoying and frustrating not to be able to be able to jump to a particular story. Not all of us want to read an anthology in front-to-back order. Ironic that a volume of speculative fiction apparently wants us to read in a lock-step manner.
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the price, but not great either. A rocky start to the series.
There were a slew of stories that I just couldn't get through and gave up on, but the ones I could get through weren't too bad.Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Couldn't stand it, stopped halfway throughFemaville 29 - Held my interest and killed some time, but no big revelations hereThe Djinn's Wife - Moderately EnjoyableThe quality is consistently inconsistent throughout.If you're a Strahan fan and are considering buying this, just do it, the low price justifies the so-so quality.
5.0 out of 5 stars I am 74 years old and have been reading since ...
I am 74 years old and have been reading since my second grade teacher taught us how important reading is. she read to us every day after noon recess. I started reading when we moved to a school that had a library. I was in the 6 th grade.
4.0 out of 5 stars ... is a collection of stories - most were very good, some good and a few not so good
This is a collection of stories - most were very good, some good and a few not so good. If you've been away from Sci-Fi literature for a while, this book is a good way to ease back into it.
5.0 out of 5 stars ... i consider too be some of if not The best SciFi collections ever
Strahan does what i consider too be some of if not The best SciFi collections ever,...7 is my favorite but if you' like SciFiup with this one, and have a good couple of days with some of the best writers in the genre
2.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A Cure for Insomnia!!
What the hell happened to this series? I can remember when "The Best Science Fiction of the Year" anthology was THE most anticipated book of the year for myself and a lot of other SF fans. I haven't picked up an edition in maybe a decade, but I was hoping it was still filled with great stories, exciting characters and action packed story-telling. Not even close. Just about every story in this volume is "artsy-fartsy" social commentary BS that delivers more preaching per page than Billy Graham's biography!Still, I somehow slogged through this miasmic literary compost heap, hoping against hope that there would be at least ONE story within its covers that didn't bore me to tears. And truthfully, I believe there was one. The rest? Snoozeville, 2016.I mean, I'm an educated, bleeding heart liberal, but even I was beginning to feel pummeled by the unending "education" being shoved down my throat by this collection. Gays? Yes, great. Women? Super duper, more power to 'em! Minorities? Welcome to my country, move in next door, I'm cool with it. But for the love of all that's holy, please, please Mr. Editor, give us at least one or two stories that are actually interesting and entertaining.
4.0 out of 5 stars Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is a welcome addition.
The " Best Science fiction and Fantasy of the Year" is a very readable and well-balanced collection. I was introduced to several authors that I had never read before and the more well known names were well represented.
très bon
en anglais plutôt facile à lire... faut aimer la genre évidemment !Mais j'aurais préféré plus de SF et moins de Fantasy...
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
About the Author
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader
A new series of books, or so we hope. I read this fully expecting not to like the fantasy part as much as the SF part, and that certainly turned out to be the case. What I have basically classified as SF to myself averages around 3.80, the fantasy part, 3.60.Anyway, I have always looked at these sort of things as Best SF with bonus material.In fact, fantasy is broadly defined here, from with boys, to child slaughtering horror.The breakdown of genre is SF a bit under half - and the odd nebulous story that you could call SF would take it a bit over half, for those that are mostly interested in this as a science fiction book. For the rest, perhaps 60:40 fantasy to horror, by my classification, for those interested in that sort of thing one way or the other.The editor gives a brief introduction, which is an historical overview of various 'Year's Best' series, and his own favorite editors of the past. Not sure whether it is short of choice, or for space reasons as he was trying to pack in as much story as possible. If that is the case, then perhaps publishers in a similar situation could consider longer editorial introduction with perhaps a url in the book, or even that as an excerpt or promo.The story intros are brief, with a little bit of biography, and a little bit of introduction, and keeps to the right side of the line of reading like advertising. Speaking of which, this book actually has relevant advertisements for other books by the publisher. Normally, most people don't like advertising, but in the case of books, I find it good to have what else is available, with publisher's URL prominently available. Even if you just do the old fashioned one page list like was done in the past, that is fine. However, in this case you exactly get pretty high quality cover reproduction and blurbs, so quite well done.So, to rate this, I give the SF part a 4.5, and the fantasy part a 4. If you like the non-SF genres more, I would think you are likely to call it the reverse.SF and F Best 01 : How To Talk To Girls At Parties - Neil Gaiman.SF and F Best 01 : El Regalo - Peter S. BeagleSF and F Best 01 : I Row-Boat - Cory DoctorowSF and F Best 01 : In The House Of The Seven Librarians - Ellen KlagesSF and F Best 01 : Another Word For Map Is Faith - Christopher RoweSF and F Best 01 : Under Hell, Over Heaven - Margo LangananSF and F Best 01 : Incarnation Day - Walter Jon Williams.SF and F Best 01 : The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford.SF and F Best 01 : A Siege Of Cranes - Benjamin RosenbaumSF and F Best 01 : Halfway House - Frances Hardinge.SF and F Best 01 : The Bible Repairman - Tim PowersSF and F Best 01 : Yellow Card Man - Paolo BacigalupiSF and F Best 01 : Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - Geoff RymanSF and F Best 01 : The American Dead - Jay LakeSF and F Best 01 : The Cartesian Theater - Robert Charles WilsonSF and F Best 01 : Journey Into The Kingdom - M. RickertSF and F Best 01 : Eight Episodes - Robert ReedSF and F Best 01 : The Wizards of Perfil - Kelly LinkSF and F Best 01 : The Saffron Gatherers - Elizabeth HandSF and F Best 01 : D.A - Connie WillisSF and F Best 01 : Femaville 29 - Paul Di FilippoSF and F Best 01 : Sob In The Silence - Gene Wolfe.SF and F Best 01 : The House Beyond Your Sky - Benjamin RosenbaumSF and F Best 01 : The Djinn's Wife - Ian McDonaldOrdinary party and alien chicks = run away.3.5 out of 5Witch boy sororal rescue.4 out of 5Asimovian reef revival survival.4.5 out of 5Taxonomically sheltered upbringing.4 out of 5Religiously correct landscaping writ large.3 out of 5Purgatory point scoring.3.5 out of 5Parental supervision control program subversion.4.5 out of 5Death booze corpse recall putdown getaway.4 out of 5Witch girl's zombie baby scorched earth revenge.4.5 out of 5Butterfly piecemeal.2.5 out of 5Broken soul ghost ransomer's burning to edit.3 out of 5Fallen biotech magnate takes insults badly.4 out of 5Surfeit of spirits.3 out of 5Tomb s*x death escape is smoking.4 out of 5AI's secret hiring post double death act suic1de promotion of philosophy.4 out of 5Rules for snogging. 1. Check for life. 2. Check if human.3 out of 5Tv invasion cancelled. Maybe.4 out of 5Scary sorcery lacks youthful replenishment.4 out of 5Archaeological expedition earthquake overflight.3.5 out of 5Space cadet Shanghai surprise.4 out of 5Tsunami refugeee imagineering exodus.4 out of 5Horrific writer's fate well deserved.4 out of 5Making a universal mess of it.2.5 out of 5Computer cops crimp AI's carnal cavorting with calisthenic chick.4 out of 54.5 out of 5
4.0 out of 5 stars Good stories; one HUGE drawback
There are some good stories here, but be forewarned: The digital version has NO clickable contents/index. This is the sole aspect that kept me from giving this volume five stars. It is so annoying and frustrating not to be able to be able to jump to a particular story. Not all of us want to read an anthology in front-to-back order. Ironic that a volume of speculative fiction apparently wants us to read in a lock-step manner.
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the price, but not great either. A rocky start to the series.
There were a slew of stories that I just couldn't get through and gave up on, but the ones I could get through weren't too bad.Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Couldn't stand it, stopped halfway throughFemaville 29 - Held my interest and killed some time, but no big revelations hereThe Djinn's Wife - Moderately EnjoyableThe quality is consistently inconsistent throughout.If you're a Strahan fan and are considering buying this, just do it, the low price justifies the so-so quality.
5.0 out of 5 stars I am 74 years old and have been reading since ...
I am 74 years old and have been reading since my second grade teacher taught us how important reading is. she read to us every day after noon recess. I started reading when we moved to a school that had a library. I was in the 6 th grade.
4.0 out of 5 stars ... is a collection of stories - most were very good, some good and a few not so good
This is a collection of stories - most were very good, some good and a few not so good. If you've been away from Sci-Fi literature for a while, this book is a good way to ease back into it.
5.0 out of 5 stars ... i consider too be some of if not The best SciFi collections ever
Strahan does what i consider too be some of if not The best SciFi collections ever,...7 is my favorite but if you' like SciFiup with this one, and have a good couple of days with some of the best writers in the genre
2.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A Cure for Insomnia!!
What the hell happened to this series? I can remember when "The Best Science Fiction of the Year" anthology was THE most anticipated book of the year for myself and a lot of other SF fans. I haven't picked up an edition in maybe a decade, but I was hoping it was still filled with great stories, exciting characters and action packed story-telling. Not even close. Just about every story in this volume is "artsy-fartsy" social commentary BS that delivers more preaching per page than Billy Graham's biography!Still, I somehow slogged through this miasmic literary compost heap, hoping against hope that there would be at least ONE story within its covers that didn't bore me to tears. And truthfully, I believe there was one. The rest? Snoozeville, 2016.I mean, I'm an educated, bleeding heart liberal, but even I was beginning to feel pummeled by the unending "education" being shoved down my throat by this collection. Gays? Yes, great. Women? Super duper, more power to 'em! Minorities? Welcome to my country, move in next door, I'm cool with it. But for the love of all that's holy, please, please Mr. Editor, give us at least one or two stories that are actually interesting and entertaining.
4.0 out of 5 stars Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is a welcome addition.
The " Best Science fiction and Fantasy of the Year" is a very readable and well-balanced collection. I was introduced to several authors that I had never read before and the more well known names were well represented.
très bon
en anglais plutôt facile à lire... faut aimer la genre évidemment !Mais j'aurais préféré plus de SF et moins de Fantasy...
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