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A review by timinbc
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois
3.0
Good but not great. I really enjoyed only the Neal Asher story.
I may have been distracted by having a very good novel on the go at the same time; I think when you do that short stories can suffer by comparison. Although if that were true I should have found the longer stories here more compelling, and I didn't.
I might just not be a short-story type. I don't think I've enjoyed a shorts collection since early Larry Niven, and that was a LONG time ago.
And, oddly enough, there were a LOT of typos and homonym errors etc., but nearly all in two or three of the stories. Dozois being a heavyweight editor, I have to wonder if those stories came in just at deadline and were rushed into the text.
I may have been distracted by having a very good novel on the go at the same time; I think when you do that short stories can suffer by comparison. Although if that were true I should have found the longer stories here more compelling, and I didn't.
I might just not be a short-story type. I don't think I've enjoyed a shorts collection since early Larry Niven, and that was a LONG time ago.
And, oddly enough, there were a LOT of typos and homonym errors etc., but nearly all in two or three of the stories. Dozois being a heavyweight editor, I have to wonder if those stories came in just at deadline and were rushed into the text.