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Title: Redshift:: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 0451459040
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Publicate Date: 2002-12-03
Publish: 2002-12-03
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Recycled rejects?
There are a few good stories here, but I strongly suspect that when Saratonio began pestering the authors for "cutting edge" material for this anthology that many of them sent in the first thing they could find in their reject piles.
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2: 7 good stories out of 30
I really liked Baxter's "In the Un-Black", Moorcock's "A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club" and Wells's "'Bassador", and liked the stories by Whitton, Kelly, Rucker+Shirley and Niven. But 7 stories out of 30 is not a good yield.
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3: No "Redshift" here
While I am a big fan of several of the authors included in this anthology, this book was a disappointment. "Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction"? I'm afraid not. This is not hard sci-fi, or even good fiction. With stories like "what if Marilyn Monroe and James Dean dated, and nothing out-of-the-ordinary happened?" or "A girl who turns people into bugs", the tales in this anthology consistently fail to satisfy. All in all, I have to say that Sarrantonio did a very poor job of selecting stories, and then gave the book a title that sets completely inappropriate expectations.
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4: Hit and miss, but mostly a hit
A good collection of 'speculative' fiction. Mainly sci-fi, but some just 'what if' type scenarios. The one about James Dean and Marilyn Monroe was just boring, and there was one less than a page long that seemed rather pointless. Overall though, good to try out some stories like this that you might not come across in mainstream science fiction. I definitely recommend it.
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5: Excellent Collection of Sci-Fi
Great stuff, a little on the fantasy side at times. The title of the book "Redshift" apparently refers to the measure of planets and the solar systems moving apart from each other, and though I didn't see anything in the collection on that particular subject really, it's a great collection.
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