2024 the besth review
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For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a cryptic message encountered by a survey ship, the discovery of alien life in the distant reaches of space, a window into a future Earth, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires our imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. At the very heart of the genre is short fiction, the secret lab that has introduced many of the new ideas, techniques, and voices prominent across all other media.
In The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Eight, Hugo and Locus Award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a comprehensive year-in-review of 2022's short fiction markets and selects thirty-one of its best stories from the wealth of magazines, anthologies, podcasts, and collections that make up the field. In these pages you'll find works by both the new and established authors who are setting the pace for science fiction today and into tomorrow. Start your journey here.
ASIN : B0D1QG5JV2
Publisher : JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. (September 10, 2024)
Publication date : September 10, 2024
Language : English
File size : 1553 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 844 pages
Reviewer: B
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mixed bag
Review: Some of these stories are excellent. Others are long-winded, boring, and seem to have been selected as filler because they fit the genre. The worst of the stories are tedious retreads of hollowed-out themes that go on, and on, and on, for many pages, so one ends up skipping large parts of the book. Are these really the best the editor could find?
Reviewer: Douglas Clark
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I found this book to contain a few real gems, many average/good stories and a few stinkers. Some of the ones I did not like so much were translations and maybe I do not have the cultural background to fully understand where the author was coming from and some seemed to peter out instead of coming to a conclusion.Amongst my favourites were "The ship cat of the Suzaku Maru" by SL Huang which I found a fun story that reminded my of Isaac Asimov's work, and "Solidity" by Greg Egan.I bought this book for a Kindle and I did not notice any errors in the text. On my Kindle it runs to 844 pages.