TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
By John DeNardo |
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at
11:28 am
Here are the contents of The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley.
- “Out of the Sun” by Arthur C. Clarke
- “The Pevatron Rats” by Stephen Baxter *
- “The Edge of the Map” by Ian Creasey
- “Cascade Point” by Timothy Zahn
- “A Dance to Strange Musics” by Gregory Benford
- “Palindromic” by Peter Crowther
- “Castle in the Sky” by Robert Reed *
- “The Hole in the Hole” by Terry Bisson
- “Hotrider” by Keith Brooke
- “Mother Grasshopper” by Michael Swanwick
- “Waves and Smart Magma” by Paul Di Filippo *
- “The Black Hole Passes” by John Varley
- “The Peacock King” by Ted White & Larry McCombs
- “Bridge” by James Blish
- “Anhedonia” by Adam Roberts *
- “Tiger Burning” by Alastair Reynolds
- “The Width of the World” by Ian Watson
- “Our Lady of the Sauropods” by Robert Silverberg
- “Into the Miranda Rift” by G. David Nordley
- “The Rest is Speculation” by Eric Brown *
- “Vacuum States” by Geoffrey A. Landis
* = New story written for this anthology
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Okay, I’ll bite.
(1) The old author-vs-art canard? It’s a load. You can’t separate the the artist from the art. I’ve chucked books by better authors than these across the room because of biases in their work. (Mieville? I love you, but your books would be better without the politics-upside-the-head.) It’s also a handy-dandy way of defending an indefensable act of buffoonery… remember the cries of “But Harlan’s such a great writer!”?
(2a) Where did I say I only buy works from authors whose views are in-line with mine? Where did I demand that other people make their purchases according to some monolithic “PC” standard? If the work seems biased in stupid ways, however, I won’t touch it with a ten-foot pole.
(2b) But that’s not what I said–what I said was I wouldn’t be buying any hypothetical books *due to the rude behavior exhibited here by some authors towards readers and colleagues*. Charging in with “Waaah! Waaah! Pathetic fucking children.” is not how you carry on a public debate like an adult.
(3) Define PC, BTW. The last time I heard a person use it seriously was when my elderly father, bless his heart, was complaining about the news not accurately portraying the natural criminal tendencies of “n****rs”. I hope not typing out the word in full doesn’t tar me with that horrible PC brush.
(4) Point taken–you and Paul aren’t as frothy as some in this thread. But Paul was still rude as hell–shockingly so, considering he ought to know better–and you jumping on the martyr’s bandwagon, as if you’re somehow Speaking Truth to Power!, instead of debating the point in a mature fashion, is probably not a good way to get your name out there.
Appalling: sci-fi’s an area where there is LOADS of mindblowing work by women (and people of races other than white) and you’ve gone with… none of them. Won’t be buying this then. Nor will my dad or brother.
Update: Graham Sleight reviewed the collection in Strange Horizons. His mind was decidedly underblown.
I don’t know. For some reason most of commenters here have rather low opinion of female writers. I mean being a female is not a disability — no need for special parking places, right? I always though that anthologies are based on “hard” criterias, such as story quality and general “fitness” to anthology author vision. Seems that I was wrong (wouldn’t be the first time) as actually there are other, more important factors.
“I guess we only get dick blowing, as that’s all we’re good for, apparently.”
And complaining, don’t forget complaining…