I wanted to like this steampunky-themed book of short-stories, but it tried too hard at cleverness and told essentially uninteresting stories. The text does not deliver on what the fascinating illustrations promise. I gave it 78 pages, 18 beyond my minimum 50, and gave it up.
Zbiorek to... 18 lat pracy autora. Nie za dużo tego, ale w tym konkretnym przypadku jakość skutecznie rekompensuje ilość. Jest logicznie, spójnie, intelektualnie – naukowo wręcz. Gość naprawdę wie, co pisze. Zna dziedzinę, w której się porusza. Każde opowiadanie to zestaw zaskakujący. Jedyne co je...
This is a collection of short stories; all unique and without connection. They are science fiction, and general fiction, set in the future, alternate realities and the past. What I enjoyed was the variety and the sheer depth of these pieces. Many are complex; about mathematics and language, going in...
[Subterranean Press has made this available for free online. As far as I can tell, the entire text is included, although the illustrations are not.] The Lifecycle of Software Objects is an exploration of what might happen if AIs capable of learning, and possessing an unknown level of potential, we...
I am astonished at how little Chiang has published - each of these eight stories has an effortless polish and freshness that can only come from a lot of labor. I'd come across two of his stories before in Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction collections. I've only read two and Chiang was in both of t...
What I've found out from reading the Foundation and Dune series recently is that science fiction is more about the ideas than the writing itself. Asimov created a fascinating universe, but his stories were lacking; Herbert created a brilliant universe of his own, steeped with religion, politics, an...
5/6 - This book is wacky. And I mean WACKY with a capital W!! It's like a 'choose your own adventure' books crossed with a non-fiction full of footnotes. Every paragraph or so I'm flicking to the contents to find the page number for the correct section that further describes the occult item that was...
This is a collection of 36 stories ranging from 1981 to 2002 and purporting to represent the best shorts in science fiction in those years. A blurb on the back by GRR Martin says that "if a science fiction fan from 1984 chanced to stumble into a time warp and pop up in the here and now, and wanted t...
The two main characters are hired by Blue Gamma (I was reminded of Blue Ant) to help create "digients" - digital entities built on an animal (and then robot) frame. Instead of having programmed behaviors, these learn, and a good portion of the novella explores the impact of that learning.I was remin...
Average of 2.68 stars for all the items rounds up to 3, I suppose. Overall, rather disappointing. There are two truly excellent stories; I'd read them both before.*** Introduction - The 19th-Century Roots of Steampunk - Jess Nevins. Makes an interesting and informative connection between steampunk ...
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