Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Feb 16, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Science Fiction Super Pack #1 edited by Warren Lapine Like the companion fantasy volume, Science Fiction Super Pack #1, edited by Warren Lapine, only has one story I didn’t think was good, and it’s a piece of Lovecraft fanfiction. H.P. Lovecraft‘s overwrought prose doesn’t do much for me even when Lovecraft himself writes it, and […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Dec 11, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 1
What is a Superhero? by Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan (editors) What is a Superhero?, a collection of 25 essays edited by Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan, doesn’t aim to present “the” answer to this oft-asked question. Instead, it throws open to the door to an array of answers (some of which are […]
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Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Oct 10, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell Twenty-First Century Science Fiction is packed full of excellent science fiction stories. I’ve been reading anthologies lately, partly to improve my own short story writing, and this is the best I’ve found so far. It contains stories by authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Catherynne […]
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Posted by Justin Blazier | Sep 26, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 1
Schemers by Robin D. Laws (editor) Schemers is a collection of short stories by an excellent list of authors: Jesse Bullington, Tobias Buckell, Ekaterina Sedia, Jonathan L. Howard, Nick Mamatas, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Tania Hershman, Kyla Lee Ward, Robyn Seale, Laura Lush, Molly Tanzer, John Helfers, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. These are stories of […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Feb 28, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Futurdaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction edited by Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood In their introduction to Futurdaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction, editors Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood offer up their motivation for the collection: We hope to inject the short-fiction market . . . with an extra serving of undisguised wonder […]
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Posted by Terry Weyna | Dec 16, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume 1 edited by Anthony Rivera & Sharon Lawson Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One, is a publication of Grey Matter Press, a small publisher of all genres of horror. The anthology has no theme — something of a rarity these days, when most anthologies are restricted […]
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Posted by Stefan Raets (RETIRED) | Aug 7, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination is the latest themed anthology edited by John Joseph Adams — and it’s another good one. This time, Adams has collected a set of short stories featuring the hero’s (or often superhero’s) traditional antagonist: the mad […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 23, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Oz Reimagined edited by John Joseph Adams Oz Reimagined is a collection of tales whose characters return as often, if not more often, to the “idea” of Oz as opposed to the actual Oz many of us read about as kids (or adults) and even more of us saw in the famed MGM version of the […]
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Posted by Terry Weyna | May 13, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 1
Limbus, Inc. edited by Anne C. Petty Limbus, Inc., is a set of five novellas by Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nasisse, Anne C. Petty and Brett J. Talley all set in the same universe, involving the same mysterious employment agency. The stories vary in quality, and have a frame that is used inconsistently […]
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