A review by melerihaf
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by William Tenn, Octavia E. Butler, Frederik Pohl, Joanna Russ, Judith Merril, Harlan Ellison, Nancy Kress, Kate Wilhelm, Philip K. Dick, Cordwainer Smith, Carol McGuirk, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian W. Aldiss, Edmond Hamilton, Theodore Sturgeon, Bruce Sterling, Eileen Gunn, Misha Nogha, J.G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, William Gibson, Jules Verne, Rob Latham, Joan Gordon, Pamela Zoline, John Varley, Arthur B. Evans, Frank Herbert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Pat Cadigan, R.A. Lafferty, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, C.L. Moore, Stanisław Lem, Avram Davidson, Alfred Bester, Arthur C. Clarke, Carol Emshwiller, E.M. Forster, Robert A. Heinlein, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Veronica Hollinger, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, James Tiptree Jr., Leslie F. Stone

5.0

I originally checked this book out because it was the only one in the library system that had "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (aka the story that Total Recall was based on). I got it in November and finally had to return it today. It was a wrench to give it back. It took me so long to read not because the stories weren't great, but because I would read the some of the same ones over and over, enjoying the worlds created by different authors. I didn't want to move on to other stories.

Of course, as in all short story collections, some stories were amazing and some made me never want to read SF again. One story in particular was so smug that I felt almost sick after reading it. Some didn't make me feel the sense of wonder that I often get from SF. There were definitely some surprises (Forster of Room with a View fame writing SF?), and there were some that made me wish I was a teacher so that I could give people these stories to read, hoping it might help them see something new about themselves and their world. I might have to buy this one.