A review by spygrl1
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, by Geoff Ryman, William Sanders, Eleanor Arnason, Ken MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, Brenda W. Clough, Michael Blumlein, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Michael Cassutt, Robert Reed, Howard Waldrop, Andy Duncan, Paul McAuley, Alastair Reynolds, Gardner Dozois, Simon Ings, Jim Grimsley, Dan Simmons, James Patrick Kelly, Allen M. Steele, Chris Beckett, Leigh Kennedy, Maureen F. McHugh, Ian R. MacLeod, Carolyn Ives Gilman
2.0
My favorite story in the collection is the one I've read three or four times before: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick. The collection also includes a story I have read before and still, on second reading, actively dislike: "Lobsters" by Charles Stross.
There were a few other stories that combined length with not being my cup of tea, which made this 780-page volume a slow read.
Other than the Swanwick, my favorites were:
"Interview: On Any Given Day" by Maureen McHugh (rejuvenation technology means the elderly have a second chance to screw up as teen-agers)
"Know How, Can Do" by Michael Blumlein ("Flowers for Algernon" with a worm ... and a goat)
Quotes
"Information production and information delivery are two completely different jobs now--and I'm telling you, honey, all the money an security is in delivery. ... The public needs the truth but doesn't want it. The money's all in what they want but don't need."
There were a few other stories that combined length with not being my cup of tea, which made this 780-page volume a slow read.
Other than the Swanwick, my favorites were:
"Interview: On Any Given Day" by Maureen McHugh (rejuvenation technology means the elderly have a second chance to screw up as teen-agers)
"Know How, Can Do" by Michael Blumlein ("Flowers for Algernon" with a worm ... and a goat)
Quotes
"Information production and information delivery are two completely different jobs now--and I'm telling you, honey, all the money an security is in delivery. ... The public needs the truth but doesn't want it. The money's all in what they want but don't need."