The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams Original Publication Year: 2009 Genre(s): Anthology, Mystery, Speculative Series: NA Awards: None Format: eBook Narrated by: NA This was the last book I finished in 2014 and it fulfilled one of the categories in the Eclectic ...
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the A...
As someone fairly familiar with science-fiction and its preoccupation with the human and more-than-human, I found this collection rather dull. Some of the ideas presented in these stories must have been shockers at the time they were published, but I found them pretty predictable. If, however, you a...
As with any anthology, there were stories I loved and stories I really didn't like. Overall, I thought it started weaker than I expected, but by the the time I was done, it had won me over.It includes:“Elegy for a Young Elk” by Hannu Rajaniemi. I recently read his acclaimed 'Quantum Thief' and didn'...
Disclaimer: I won a copy of this book from the blog of one of the contributing authors.
I never know how to rate anthologies, maybe I should have rated each story separately and calculated the average. The result would probably be just about 3,5, with the stories ranging from uninspired and contrived to various degrees of amazing. For the most part, the big names lived up to my expecta...
Some stories better than others (of course), but really liked the premise that the divergence was from scientific reasons, instead of the more usual military battle/political figure ones.
Meh. It was a mediocre book. None of the stories particularly stood out. [book: Beyond Armageddon] is a much better anthology.
PNH is talented at shifting the gold from the dross: his collections are always better than the generally crap anthologies usually produced. A personal favorite is Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat," in which aliens about to make First Contact with us are horrified by what they find. Sci fi...
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