A review by chronographia
Olympus, by Jane Yolen, Jean-François Podevin, Deborah Wheeler, Tanya Huff, Jo Clayton, Irene Radford, Bruce D. Arthurs, Diana L. Paxson, Mike Resnick, Jon DeCles, Anne Braude, Charles de Lint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dennis L. McKiernan, Michelle Sagara West, Nick DiChario, Karen Haber, Roberta Gellis, Esther M. Friesner, Martin H. Greenberg, Lawrence Watt-Evans

2.0

As much as I endorse modern mythology and retelling the oldest tales in the newest ways, there is really nothing to save this anthology from landing in my used bookstore. Nothing outright terrible, but neither is anything memorable or worth passing on.

Update: this went from unmemorable to terrible about midway through. Either overburdened with 1990s pop culture references, or badly written romance (because Artemis totally does sexyfuntiems, right?), or the bluntest declarations of war on The Patriarchy - the whole thing just needs to crawl under a rock and not show its face again.

(That Athena, goddess of war and invention, rides a motorcycle - which I am told by a knowledgeable source is the wrong type for her - is probably the best modern mythology you're going to glean from this.)


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