A review by spygrl1
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 by Rich Horton
2.0
I had read several of these previously in another anthology, including the excellent "Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky. The other standouts were:
"Technicolor" by John Langan, a fun Poe pastiche in which a professor's lecture on The Masque of the Red Death takes some strange twists.
"Catalog" by Eugene Mirabelli, in which a man with a crush on a catalog model finds himself suddenly in an alternate universe populated by centerfolds with staple navels and a gothy Maddy Usher, part-time waitress.
"Secret Identity" by Kelly Link, in which a teen-age girl (who may be a born sidekick, or maybe a superhero) falls in love (or what she thinks is love) with an older man (who could be a superhero) she "meets" while playing a WoW-like game.
"The Peaceable Land; Or, the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" by Robert Charles Wilson, a vision of a United States that did not endure a civil war, and the horrible aftermath of slavery's slow death.
"Technicolor" by John Langan, a fun Poe pastiche in which a professor's lecture on The Masque of the Red Death takes some strange twists.
"Catalog" by Eugene Mirabelli, in which a man with a crush on a catalog model finds himself suddenly in an alternate universe populated by centerfolds with staple navels and a gothy Maddy Usher, part-time waitress.
"Secret Identity" by Kelly Link, in which a teen-age girl (who may be a born sidekick, or maybe a superhero) falls in love (or what she thinks is love) with an older man (who could be a superhero) she "meets" while playing a WoW-like game.
"The Peaceable Land; Or, the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" by Robert Charles Wilson, a vision of a United States that did not endure a civil war, and the horrible aftermath of slavery's slow death.