A review by isabellas
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

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