Reviews

The Year's Best Fantasy 2, by Sandra M. Gilbert, Ian Watson, Jane Yolen, Sara Maitland, Ian McDonald, Greg Egan, Jessie Thompson, Lucius Shepard, Nancy Kress, Michael Blumlein, Ellen Datlow, F. Paul Wilson, Jim Aikin, Lewis Shiner, Bruce Boston, Ru Emerson, Charles Beaumont, M. John Harrison, Patricia C. Wrede, Gwyneth Jones, Scott Bradfield, John M. Ford, Ramsey Campbell, John Dufresne, Richard Matheson, Ruth Roston, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint, Edward Bryant, Pat Cadigan, Anne Gay, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert Kelly, Tanith Lee, Barry N. Malzberg, Daniel Pinkwater, Dan Simmons, Lisa Goldstein, Joan Aiken, Dennis Etchison, Terri Windling, Charles L. Grant, Rick DeMarinis, William Kotzwinkle, Thomas M. Disch

cj_jones's review

4.0

I have over twenty of these. The four stars is less for the individual quality as for the amazing resource it serves. Each of these *thick* books has page after page after page of short stories carefully culled from the year's offerings. And each story is a potential lead to a new author to read on top of being well crafted. With short stories there is often the danger that I will stare blankly at the final page and say "idungeddit" but this is well worth the risk.