Print Anthologies
Reviews of print anthologies.
Bandersnatch, edited by Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace
Given the editors of the anthology Bandersnatch—Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay, who until recently co-edited Fantasy Magazine—it would make sense to expect similar stories to those in the magazine. That would be a mistake here—their selected stories give a different feel to this anthology, and while the broad result is less to my taste, […]
Continue ReadingL. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIII, edited by Algis Budrys
The Writers of the Future Volume XXIII anthology opens beautifully with “Primetime” by Douglas Texter, a humanist tale of a future history channel that brings the past alive through live streaming coverage of history’s highest rating events. Alex, a lower level feed recorder for historical shows catches the attention of the head of the channel […]
Continue ReadingCrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology, Vol. VI, edited by Anthony Ravenscroft
The CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology VI publishes the best of the stories contributed to the Crossquarter Annual Short Science Fiction Contest in 2006. The competition has been running since 2001 and is organised in memory of Paul B. Duquette, a friend of the publisher’s and an sf fan. The Crossquarter competition specifies that it […]
Continue ReadingHeroes in Training, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines
I approached Heroes in Training expecting stories starring child and teen heroes undergoing rites de passage in order to prove their maturity. The term “hero” is much more loosely defined in this book, however. Within its pages, we meet a variety of species, ages, and moral orientations, whose common challenge is a […]
Continue ReadingMarion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXII, edited by Elisabeth Waters
For 22 volumes, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress anthologies have been collecting stories of women who use magic and/or might to overcome challenges. How’s the antho holding up after over two decades? Is it still fresh? Well, I’m happy to report that it is. Featuring a preponderance of first-time or fledgling authors, S&S XXII […]
Continue ReadingSo Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, edited by Steve Berman
Welcome to the latest pun on fairies and faeries. So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction ties together the gay, lesbian, and otherwise queer with the magical, unearthly and otherwise fey creatures known as faeries. As queer people have historically existed along the margins of culture, so faeries, I suppose, have supposedly hovered in our peripheral […]
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