The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year)From Strahan, Jonathan (EDT)
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The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.
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- Brand: Strahan, Jonathan (EDT)
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.50" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 624 pages
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year)From Strahan, Jonathan (EDT) About the Author Jonathan Strahan is a multiple award-winning editor and anthologist. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters. He publishes two continuing original anthology series with Solaris, the Infinity and Fearsome books.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Superb collection By Bacterialover Ninth in Strahan's series of yearly collections, this is the first one I've read and it's now a series I'll be striving to fit into the reading list for years to come. It tends to favor the longer length of novella over shorter works, a factor that I'd a priori consider a major strike against. I'm not a huge fan of novellas, but there are certainly cases where they work exceptionally well for my taste. Most of the ones in this anthology do just that. As I write the paragraphs that follow I realize that a lot of the stories also tend towards the darker side, particularly the fantasy. I tend to like that style/ambience in stories, but obviously some readers may shy away from it.The six stories that volume 9 begins with are all superb, representative of the quality and variety to come. I had already enjoyed both Ken Liu's story and an earlier print (original?) of Holly Black's fun space adventure with a compelling pair of characters (one human and one alien) and the interesting themes of monstrosity and the discoveries during coming-of-age. Kelly Link's beautiful story is part urban fantasy and part fairy tale on family and friends set at Christmas. Similarly, Bacigalupi's story is a fantasy hailing from the same original themed collection, but this one (unlike Link's) is full of a darkness, a broken world, that I'd expect from him. Used to the SF stories I've normally seen from him though, this was a nice change done just as well. (I really need to read Monstrous Affections it seems). I'd already also read the latter story by Alice Sola Kim in Tin House that was reprint in Monstrous Affections too, and it is equally superb, though grounded in realism.I have MITs Technology Review fiction issue on my shelf to read, and experiencing Beukes' story from it in Strahan's anthology makes me more eager to get to it. I'd only read Beukes' The Shining Girls prior (which I found over-rated, but okay). The hard sci fi from her in this story is superb, featuring competitive sports and artificial enhancements taken to the next level. The tech is interesting here, but the humanity and depth of her protagonist is even more astounding.Among those opening six, Usman T. Malik is yet another that blew me away with its effective treatment of terrorism and violence from a large scale focused down to the personal human level. This one just won a Stoker Award, and understandably, it is perhaps more horror than SF - and I recognize Malik mostly from appearances in Nightmare Magazine. Malik has another really powerful story in the themed collection Truth or Dare, that I'm reviewing next up. If you haven't checked out his fiction yet, try either of these recent reprints. A latter story by Nix previously read in Fearful Symmetries also is truly horror in genre, though also a great story. I remember it vaguely from reading prior, but I think I enjoyed it this second time round even more.The vague disbelief that I was so thoroughly enjoying these relatively long stories without growing restless or annoyed that I couldn't finish in a bus ride finally broke with the seventh story, Abercrombie's adventure from the Rogues collection. I have no idea if this is the case, but it felt as though I was supposed to already know these characters from somewhere, and I found it difficult to get into. Ultimately the story just kept going and I was long past caring. Swanwick's story later from the same collection had the same effect. Egan's also felt as though it was just a part of something larger, not a tale of its own.Valentine and Griffith have a pair of stories that have a sort of ephemeral fantasies that have a beauty in the language but a strong tinge of darkness in their plots and ambience. Fitting in to this kind of story, Amal El-Mohtar's "The Truth About Owls" is one of my favorites from this anthology. She does an absolutely beautiful job relating the life of her protagonist with interludes about the biology/behavior of owls, with mythology, and with language. I read this one right before going to sleep one night and it made a fantastic bed time story.Lastly, there were a few cases that surprised me, both negatively and positively. (Abercrombie was kind of one too given that I loved the only other thing of his I've read: Half a King.) First, the story by Wilson is on an important and relevant theme of racial issues, explored partially through a fantastic lens. I expected to adore it and be moved. Instead I found the structure and length to be an impediment. Second, Ellen Klages is represented with two stories here, I found this surprising, inexplicable. One would have sufficed and given room for something else. I didn't find either bad, but neither impressed me to understand why both were here. Third, I really enjoyed Schroeder's SF adventure. I haven't liked a lot of his stuff in the past in Analog, but this is probably because they were mostly serials. Here it felt just right, and his strength in telling a good story with hard SF elements and a bit of optimism fit perfectly amid the other types of stories in the collection.Any serious fan of SF/Fantasy should find things of joy here, and readers who don't normally read the genre may find the novella lengths that mostly make this up to be perfect for dipping into some of the best authors in the fields. They vary from the simple entertainment to the literary, from the fantastic to the realistic. Although I'd read a decent number of those included in this before, almost all that I had (if not all) were ones that initially had really impressed me. (The only ones not already mentioned above are "Someday" from Asimov's and Theodora Goss' story, which is a fantastic achievement in making a compelling story out of something that reads like a nonfiction, a history.) I appreciated reading all these stories a second time, affirming to me that anthologies are useful even if you've read the fields somewhat well.Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this from Solaris via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.CONTENTS:“Slipping”, by Lauren Beukes (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2014)“Moriabe’s Children”, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Monstrous Affections)“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family”, by Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)“The Lady and the Fox”, by Kelly Link (My True Love Gave to Me)“Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)”, by Holly Black (Monstrous Affections)“The LONG HAUL, from the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009”, by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld, Nov 2014)“Tough Times All Over”, by Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)“The Insects of Love”, by Genevieve Valentine (Tor.com, 28th May 2014)“Cold Wind”, by Nicola Griffith (Tor.com, 16th Apr 2014)“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8), by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014)“Shadow Flock”, by Greg Egan (Coming Soon Enough)“I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”, by K.J. Parker (Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2014)“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2014)“Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying”, by Alice Sola Kim (Tin House #61)“Shay Corsham Worsted”, by Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)“Kheldyu”, by Karl Schroeder (Reach for Infinity)“Caligo Lane”, by Ellen Klages (Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2014)“The Devil in America”, by Kai Ashanti Wilson (Tor.com 2nd Apr 2014)“Tawny Petticoats”, by Michael Swanwick (Rogues)“The Fifth Dragon”, by Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)“The Truth About Owls”, by Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)“Four Days of Christmas”, by Tim Maughan (Terraform, Dec 2014)“Covenant”, by Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future)“Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”, by Theodora Goss (Lightspeed, Jul 2014)“Collateral”, by Peter Watts (Upgraded)“The Scrivener”, by Eleanor Arnason (Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2014)“Someday”, by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2014)“Amicae Aeternum”, by Ellen Klages (Reach for Infinity)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Definitely recommended By Yzabel (I received a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)4.5 stars. Usually, collections of short stories are hard for me to rate, as they always contain the good, the bad and the ugly, so to speak. This time, I can say this was a different experience. There's no story in here I didn't like at all: at worst, I was slightly indifferent, and only to a few of them. This anthology's definitely worth the read (unless you don't like horror stories being mixed with SF/F, which is a point of view I can understand).==========================My favourites:=========================="Moriabe's Children": in which a parallel is drawn between deep-sea monsters and all-too-human monsters dwelling on the shore."Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler": Even though the world developed here isn't particularly original, I found this story pretty entertaining and fun to read."Tough Times All Over": A romp in a city full of thieves, smugglers, mercenaries and various other shady types, all running after a mysterious parcel that keep eluding them and passing to yet the next person in the chain."Cold Wind": Predators and preys from long ago, in a modern city that has forgotten who they once were."Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8)": Psychopaths on a road trip, and the way they perceive their journey and the people they meet. Not the easiest story to get into at first, due to its writing style, yet this style then contributed to keeping me me enthralled all the way."I Met a Man Who Wasn't There": In which con-artists and magic collide, told from a somewhat jaded yet mischievous point of view."Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)": A widower about to lose his daughter too decides to invest into forbidden technology to create what could amount to a golem. However, his own child isn't dead yet... and accepting the one who's going to "replace" her isn't so easy."Shay Corsham Worsted": A retired secret services agent tries to prevent an old weapon from becoming a problem... but the secret's been so well-kept that nobody seems to know what it was about anymore."Tawny Petticoats": Another story of con-artists in a fantasy world, where nothing goes as planned and everybody's trying to outwit the other parties. Fairly enjoyable."The Fifth Dragon": A story of love, friendship, choices and loss, as the moon's being colonised and gravity-related physical issues start getting in the way."Four Days of Christmas": Very short but to the point. The story of Santa toys, from their manufacturing to how they get rediscovered much later, their harshness-denouncing journey made creepier due to these being "jolly" toys."Covenant": A good twist on the theme of serial killers, repentance and irony of fate."Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology": A group of academics expand on the theme of "what if Cimmeria was real, and how it would have evolved in our contemporary world." A story where imagination becomes real, giving birth to a whole nation completely escaping its creators."The Scrivener": This story meshes fairy tales with subverted themes of writing and literary criticism."Amicae Aeternum": A girl has to leave, and wishes to spend her last night with her best friend, saying goodbye to all the things she'll never see or have again. Both very nostalgic and full of hope for the future.==========================In-between:=========================="The Long Haul from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009": Marriage dynamics in an alternate world where the Hindenburg disaster never happened, and where airship became a norm in contemporary times."The Insects of Love": Mysterious and hinting at memory/time slippage. I would've liked it to be a little clearer on this latter part, though."Shadow Flock": A heist story, enjoyable but a little wanting in terms of a conclusion."Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying": Adopted teenagers girl gather and perform black magic in their quest for identity. The apparently ineffective spell gives them what they want... at first."Kheldyu": Action, stealthy infiltrators, interesting techological evolutions, and an "ecological" plot."Calligo Lane": Fascinating space-bending magic based on origami. However, the plot wasn't really defined."The Truth About Owls": A tale about a young girl exiled from her country, having to adapt to a new life but also unable to fully embrace her own roots."Collateral": (Already read in Upgraded) In which an enhanced soldier has to face the consequences of her choices and training, and come to conclusions after sifting through what's right and what's wrong.==========================The ones I liked the least:=========================="The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family": Interesting, especially for the theme it wields, but it wasn't rooted enough in sci-fi or fantastical elements for me. (Not a bad story.)"The Devil in America": The mix of slavery and ancient magic could've been interesting, but it was so disjointed that it made it hard to follow."Someday": I kept thinking "why not" when it came to this society's depiction of mating and having children, but in the end I couldn't decide what was actually the point.==========================Conclusion:==========================A recommended read. A few of the stories lacked a properly defined plot and punchline, but this is something that was much more pronounced in other anthologies than this one.NB. When I write "punchline", I don't mean "the most original one in the world"... just an ending. Leaving things too open-ended in short stories always seems weird to me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This was probably one of my favorite of the "Best" collections By J. Hamby This was probably one of my favorite of the "Best" collections. It is full of well written short fiction of varying lengths. Yeah there are some that did not strike a chord.I have to admit though I had already read most of the works. Being a big fan and follower of the online e-zines that delivered many of the stories originally, Subterranean Magazine, Tor.com, Lightspeed etc.But here they are gathered. Some you would have to buy another anthology to read some subscribe to the magazine. So this is a rich full collection worth the buy. K.J. Parker, Rachel Swirsky, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Liu and Ian McDonald deliver some incredibly strong stories that each makes the book worthwhile in my opinion. The rest aren't too shabby to say the least since the few I did not care for were more taste in style. All in all, I strongly believe the title is no misnomer.
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