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A review by raven_morgan
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 10 by Jonathan Strahan
5.0
Like everyone, I don't have the time I need to be able to keep up with all of the short fiction being published in a year. Thankfully, we have wonderful resources in the many Year's Best anthologies that are published. Jonathan Strahan is an editor whose reading taste I much admire (even when it doesn't mesh with my own), and I look forward to his annual Year's Best offering. This is the tenth volume in the series edited by Strahan.
My reading of short fiction for the last year, especially outside of Australia, has been more than scattershot, and I missed a lot of good fiction. There were more stories in this collection that I'd not read (though many I'd heard chatter about) than those I'd read, which speaks only to my reading habits. Hats off to Strahan and other like editors, who have to wade through oceans of fiction to pick out what they consider the best works of the year.
Of especial note in this volume for me were: "Black Dog", by Neil Gaiman, "Dancy vs the Pterosaur" by Caitlin R. Kiernan, "Another Word for World" by Ann Leckie and "Water of Versailles" by Kelly Robson, though honestly, I enjoyed every story and could well see why they were selected for the collection, even when they didn't totally mesh with my own personal taste.
My reading of short fiction for the last year, especially outside of Australia, has been more than scattershot, and I missed a lot of good fiction. There were more stories in this collection that I'd not read (though many I'd heard chatter about) than those I'd read, which speaks only to my reading habits. Hats off to Strahan and other like editors, who have to wade through oceans of fiction to pick out what they consider the best works of the year.
Of especial note in this volume for me were: "Black Dog", by Neil Gaiman, "Dancy vs the Pterosaur" by Caitlin R. Kiernan, "Another Word for World" by Ann Leckie and "Water of Versailles" by Kelly Robson, though honestly, I enjoyed every story and could well see why they were selected for the collection, even when they didn't totally mesh with my own personal taste.