The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition

This is closing on the perfect anthology. The Good New Stuff averages 4.06, The Good Old Stuff 4.03. The former, however, doesn't contain the introductory and recommended reading material to the same degree as the latter, perhaps assuming you will be interested in both? Anyway, you will be if you like this book. I'd be happily still reading either if they were three times and long, and the editor said he had plenty more to choose from. Dozois moves on from the up to the seventies of the earlier volume, beginning with a late seventies Varley story, a few from the eighties, and the majority from the nineties. From 1999, maybe by the teens we will see The Good New Stuff 2, given it would be over ten years old then, although there's been originals like The New Space Opera, etc., produced, as well. There are also supposed to be some Space Opera reprint anthologies from Rich Horton's publisher, for those interested in this sort of book with new work. Those books have been coming longer than xmas though, twice, even, I think, so have the unfortunately distinctly insubstantial smell of v@p0rware. So, will have to settle for these and The Space Opera Renaissance in the meantime if looking for other work, conveniently packaged. Back to this volume though. There is quite a lot of space opera material here, of course, but some other stories of strange colonies - Janet Kagan, for instance, or baroque cultures in the case of Swanwick. Yet another book that shows Dozois is the editor who chooses the stories I like the most, in general, even if only by a small margin. Good New Stuff : Goodbye Robinson Crusoe - John Varley Good New Stuff : The Way of Cross and Dragon - George R. R. Martin Good New Stuff : Swarm - Bruce Sterling Good New Stuff : The Blind Minotaur - Michael Swanwick Good New Stuff : The Blabber - Vernor Vinge Good New Stuff : The Return of the Kangaroo Rex - Janet Kagan Good New Stuff : Prayers on the Wind - Walter Jon Williams Good New Stuff : The Missionary's Child - Maureen F. McHugh Good New Stuff : Poles Apart - G. David Nordley Good New Stuff : Guest of Honor - Robert Reed Good New Stuff : Flowering Mandrake - George Turner Good New Stuff : Cilia-of-Gold - Stephen Baxter Good New Stuff : Gone to Glory - R. Garcia y Robertson Good New Stuff : A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel Good New Stuff : All Tomorrow's Parties - Paul J. McAuley Good New Stuff : Escape Route - Peter F. Hamilton Good New Stuff : The Eye of G0d - Mary Rosenblum

This is closing on the perfect anthology. The Good New Stuff averages 4.06, The Good Old Stuff 4.03. The former, however, doesn't contain the introductory and recommended reading material to the same degree as the latter, perhaps assuming you will be interested in both? Anyway, you will be if you like this book. I'd be happily still reading either if they were three times and long, and the editor said he had plenty more to choose from. Dozois moves on from the up to the seventies of the earlier volume, beginning with a late seventies Varley story, a few from the eighties, and the majority from the nineties. From 1999, maybe by the teens we will see The Good New Stuff 2, given it would be over ten years old then, although there's been originals like The New Space Opera, etc., produced, as well. There are also supposed to be some Space Opera reprint anthologies from Rich Horton's publisher, for those interested in this sort of book with new work. Those books have been coming longer than xmas though, twice, even, I think, so have the unfortunately distinctly insubstantial smell of vaporware. So, will have to settle for these and The Space Opera Renaissance in the meantime if looking for other work, conveniently packaged. Back to this volume though. There is quite a lot of space opera material here, of course, but some other stories of strange colonies - Janet Kagan, for instance, or baroque cultures in the case of Swanwick. Yet another book that shows Dozois is the editor who chooses the stories I like the most, in general, even if only by a small margin. Good New Stuff : Goodbye Robinson Crusoe - John Varley Good New Stuff : The Way of Cross and Dragon - George R. R. Martin Good New Stuff : Swarm - Bruce Sterling Good New Stuff : The Blind Minotaur - Michael Swanwick Good New Stuff : The Blabber - Vernor Vinge Good New Stuff : The Return of the Kangaroo Rex - Janet Kagan Good New Stuff : Prayers on the Wind - Walter Jon Williams Good New Stuff : The Missionary's Child - Maureen F. McHugh Good New Stuff : Poles Apart - G. David Nordley Good New Stuff : Guest of Honor - Robert Reed Good New Stuff : Flowering Mandrake - George Turner Good New Stuff : Cilia-of-Gold - Stephen Baxter Good New Stuff : Gone to Glory - R. Garcia y Robertson Good New Stuff : A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel Good New Stuff : All Tomorrow's Parties - Paul J. McAuley Good New Stuff : Escape Route - Peter F. Hamilton Good New Stuff : The Eye of G0d - Mary Rosenblum ## Average explorer losses. 3.5 out of 5 Vegetable methuselah's Kal-Elesque odyssey, and brief Phoenix rising. 5 out of 5 Mercurial alien life relationship. 4 out of 5 John Carter AND Tars Tarkas would probably have problems with ten million neanderthal warriors. One warlord type is bad enough, when he wants to start a fight. 4.5 out of 5 Metaspace Marine homecoming cleanout. 4.5 out of 5 The answer to Freddie Mercury's question is 'we do', you silly, misguided, toasted huma

... fun escapist reading for a lazy Sunday. The collection is dominated by feel-good stories whose ideas and plot twists are familiar, often predictable.Buoyed by a few charismatic selections (like Janet Kagan's "The Return of the Kangaroo Rex") which make up for their shortcomings by going at a good healthy clip and keeping the laughs coming in. William Jon Williams' "Prayers on the Wind" and George Turner's "Flowering Mandrake" offer moderately interesting twists on the tradition of the theocratic and the First Contact story respectively. I had been particularly interested in reading Vernor Vinge's novella "The Blabber," but it goes like the literary equivalent of a clip show: if you've already read "A Fire Upon the Deep" it's all too obvious, and if you haven't the story will probably seem pointless.)For more consistently innovative picks but a bit more of a tendency toward name-brand authors, check out James Gunn's "Road to SF" series.