Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Jan 20, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran Things you should know: 1. This is a reprint anthology. If you read a lot of anthologies in the field, you will probably have read some of these before. I had read three, though two of them were among the best ones, and I enjoyed reading them […]
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Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Dec 29, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume 30 edited by Dave Wolverton The Writers of the Future contest is held in high regard within the SFF field, largely because of the many fine writers who have had a boost to their early careers through it and the prominence of the judges (and despite […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Dec 4, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 5
Women Destroy Science Fiction! Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue: The Stories edited by Christie Yant, Robyn Lupo, Rachel Swirsky Last June, Hugo-winning Lightspeed Magazine, which is edited by John Joseph Adams, devoted an entire issue (Women Destroy Science Fiction!, June 2014, issue #49) to female science fiction writers and editors. Under Christie Yant’s and Robyn Lupo’s editorial […]
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Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Mar 20, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1 edited by Warren Lapine Fantasy Super Pack #1 , which is available for 99c in Kindle format, is an enormous collection of 34 stories presumably showcasing the taste of the editor of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, an online magazine. As I’m interested in submitting to the magazine, I […]
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Posted by Kate Lechler | Oct 22, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Monstrous Affections by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales, a new anthology by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, was an interesting and surprising read. Interesting because, duh, anything the duo behind Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet puts together has to be great. And surprising because nothing on the cover prepared me […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Sep 29, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
The New Gothic edited by Beth K. Lewis The New Gothic, an anthology of twelve stories, is edited by Beth K. Lewis and published by Stone Skin Press. It’s a good collection, worth reading. Gothic horror usually counts on a mounting sense of dread and/or disgust to carry the reader, rather than shock or terror. […]
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Posted by Mike Reeves-McMillan | Sep 2, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 edited by Rich Horton I’ve been reading a lot of anthologies lately, including another of the several “Year’s Best” collections (the Jonathan Strahan one). I was pleased to find that, unlike some of the others, this one matched my tastes fairly well for the most part. I […]
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Posted by Kate Lechler | Jul 31, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois Rogues, a short-story anthology by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, is a marvelously diverse collection of stories and genres, tied together by those scoundrels, those tricksters, those rascals, those rogues that you can’t help but love. I listened to it on audiobook and loved the experience, especially […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jun 26, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
Drawn to Marvel edited by Bryan D. Dietrich & Marta Ferguson Comic book superheroes have become the dominant money-making vehicle in Hollywood the past decade or so, and we’re become accustomed to seeing them in spectacular, big-screen set pieces that boggle our eyes. But sometimes it’s nice to shift perspective a bit, not just to […]
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Posted by Terry Weyna | Jan 21, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 1
Dark Duets edited by Christopher Golden Christopher Golden explains in his introduction to Dark Duets that writing is a solitary occupation right up until that moment an alchemical reaction takes place and a bolt of inspiration simultaneously strikes two writers who are friends. Golden has found that the results of collaboration are often fascinating and sometimes […]
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