Second paragraph of third chapter: ‘Good morning,’ I said.
This won the BSFA Award for 1993, beating three books that I have read - Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson; and Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson - and one that I haven’t, Harm’s Way by Colin Greenland. This is stiff competition - Green Mars is probably the best ( Read more... )

Third of this set of anthologies of sf short stories by British-based authors, the only one of the three I had previously read. I felt the quality of the stories was a notch above the other too (themselves not at all bad). Topped and tailed with "The Grey Wethers" by Keith Roberts and "A Tupolev Too Far" by Brian Aldiss, with the others including " ( Read more... )

I have been steaming through my large collection of unread sf anthologies this year, but often finding it difficult to say much about them. I'm reviewing here primarily for myself, and since most of the anthologies concerned are long past their sales peak I can't imagine that it makes much difference to anyone else. Most of these collections are of ( Read more... )