Comments on: REVIEW: The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29 edited by Gardner Dozois http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/review-the-years-best-science-fiction-29-edited-by-gardner-dozois/ A science fiction blog featuring science fiction book reviews and with frequent ramblings on fantasy, computers and the web. Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carl V. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/review-the-years-best-science-fiction-29-edited-by-gardner-dozois/#comment-132559 Carl V. Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:53:41 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=71411#comment-132559 With the short story Friday’s going on now I essentially am reading a short story every day, on average, even if it is done in chunks of two or three at a time. I’m enjoying keeping up with some of the latest stuff out there.

]]> By: Jerry Gaiser http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/review-the-years-best-science-fiction-29-edited-by-gardner-dozois/#comment-132558 Jerry Gaiser Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:43:26 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=71411#comment-132558 I really need to read more short fiction. I’ve got a pile of Clarkesworld and Lightspeed to get through… :-)

]]> By: John DeNardo http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/review-the-years-best-science-fiction-29-edited-by-gardner-dozois/#comment-132557 John DeNardo Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:56:45 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=71411#comment-132557 Several years ago, I resolved to read a short story every day, or a novelette every 2 days, or a novella every 4 days, or some combination. It was lots of fun. You should give it a whirl. [Cue bragging by Fred :P ] I, alas, am finding myself with less reading time these days.

]]> By: Carl V. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/02/review-the-years-best-science-fiction-29-edited-by-gardner-dozois/#comment-132552 Carl V. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:33:23 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=71411#comment-132552 I remember liking “The Choice” and probably would have rated it about the same as you did.

I picked “The Beancounter’s Cat” for a short story read recently in a SF book club that I belong to and it got mixed reactions. It is an odd story but one I find particularly effective.

“Dolly” is a great story, one of my favorites of the year.

I enjoyed “The Vicar of Mars” and would probably rate it at least a 4 myself, maybe even 4.5.

I’m positive I’ve read a few more of these because the titles of the stories look so familiar but it may be that I just have magazines/books with these stories in them that I haven’t gotten around to reading.

This is a massive collection, John and I appreciate you going through it all and giving individual stories. There is a lot here that I feel like I missed out on so (with my abundant free time) I may need to track down a copy of this one. I have yet to read any of these larger collections, by Dozois or Strahan. They always seem so daunting. I think that is one of the reasons I am motivated to try to keep up with several individual publications each month so that at the end of the year I can go into a ‘best of’ collection with some of the stories under my belt and some of my own ideas as to what the field offered for the year.

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