Hit or miss, with no one story knocking my socks off, but enough with enough meat that I read almost all of them. I skipped the 2 longest that had the most poetic, flowery language.
A novella for Elizabethan/Jacobean drama nerds. The language is deliberately difficult, and in the second half I was frequently unsure what exactly was happening, and the ending was unsatisfying, but this was still a fascinating read. Lots of Shakespeare, and a surprising number of Marlowe reference...
Three tales set in the realm of Cloud, which seems to be a medieval Europe-like world. Ashes is both a mythic figure and someone that women play at being, or become. It's all very interesting, but also difficult to follow. The book will suddenly start referring to "he" after a long section exclus...
I couldn't describe this as properly read as I only dipped into it, the only thing that caught my attention completely was a poem by Neil Gaimon
Datlow and Windling; how can you go wrong? You can't! They're a couple of the best editors out there. Of course, that doesn't mean that I love every story, but this is a really good anthology.The 'theme' her eis that of the 19th-century salon - but that just basically means, 'anything goes.' There i...
The three best stories in this anthology are "Le Fee Verte" by Delia Sherman, "Femaville 29" by Paul Di Filippo, and "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" by Lavie Tidhar (which is an excellent story about the effects of terrorism). There is a wonderful sense of place and time in those stories and make the bo...
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