Another book read
Apr. 17th, 2006 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsThis one was read in California, and on the way home from there.
Book 15: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Third Annual Collection (1985) edited by Gardner Dozois. This is one of the earlier ones in this still ongoing series of collections, and I have about a dozen of them. His introduction seems shorter than I've become accustomed to in more recent editions, and the book also felt a bit shorter, it is quite possible that with the success of the series, he has had more budget for more space. I'd read a few of the stories before, re-read some of those, but not others. It had some good stories in it, but also didn't seem to have a strong enough emphasis on the SCIENCE in the sf, many seemed to be fantasy, slipstream, or alternate history. Sure, slipstream and alternate history may be considered science fiction, in a fairly broad use of the word, but I guess they just aren't works that I tend to like. And, often, they depend on a far more detailed knowledge of some odd bit of history that I, maybe, don't have the background for. Still, these collections continue to be worth reading, and buying.
Book 15: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Third Annual Collection (1985) edited by Gardner Dozois. This is one of the earlier ones in this still ongoing series of collections, and I have about a dozen of them. His introduction seems shorter than I've become accustomed to in more recent editions, and the book also felt a bit shorter, it is quite possible that with the success of the series, he has had more budget for more space. I'd read a few of the stories before, re-read some of those, but not others. It had some good stories in it, but also didn't seem to have a strong enough emphasis on the SCIENCE in the sf, many seemed to be fantasy, slipstream, or alternate history. Sure, slipstream and alternate history may be considered science fiction, in a fairly broad use of the word, but I guess they just aren't works that I tend to like. And, often, they depend on a far more detailed knowledge of some odd bit of history that I, maybe, don't have the background for. Still, these collections continue to be worth reading, and buying.
