Reviews

Fast Forward 2, by Ian McDonald, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Paul Cornell, Nancy Kress, Tobias S. Buckell, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Cory Doctorow, Lou Anders, Jack Skillingstead, Karl Schroeder, Mike Resnick, Paul McAuley, Pat Cadigan, Jack McDevitt, Jeff Carlson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kay Kenyon, Paolo Bacigalupi

nghia's review

4.0

The first volume ("Fast Forward") was pretty meh. This one was had quite a few excellent short stories.

isabellas's review

2.0

I wanted to like this collection of short stories, but most of them lacked focus. I had absolutely no idea what the first story was about - it was clearly a moment of the author struggling to express what they saw in their head in writing. Some of the stories also lacked good conclusions, instead these stories just ended and I was left wanting more. And by good conclusions, I mean that the story reached a natural conclusion - a lot of the stories were ended by the author and this made the stories' endings clumsy and unnatural.

1.5 stars, rounded up