Reviews

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 by L. Ron Hubbard, Stephen Hickman, Algis Budrys

mburnamfink's review against another edition

3.0

"Best of" Collections are tricky beast. Writers of the Future has a mandate to focus on unpublished authors, which I appreciate, but this collection was a little bit of a dud. The stories were workmanlike, but only a few excited me and none blew me away. Traditional SF is a minority, with most of the collection devoted to fantasy (did we really need 2 'waifish deformed girls with magical powers at the shore stories?), horror, and religious (but not explicitly Scientologist) fiction.

Not a bad book for people who like strange fiction, and since I got it for 50 cents at a used bookstore I'm happy, but far from vital either.