Outside of a Dog: Nielsen Hayden, Patrick (ed): New Skies

Mike Kozlowski

Mike Kozlowski wrote on August 9, 2004 at 10:17 PM:

For a long time I thought of myself as someone who didn't like short fiction, based on reading anthologies and generally shrugging at them; but I eventually realized that short story collections by authors I like (Egan, Brin, Asimov, Gaiman, and it'd be cheating to include Chiang) are almost uniformly enjoyable, so I think it's really just that there's a lot of weak short fiction out there, even in the "good stuff."

(The Starlights, though, are the exception to the anthology rule, in that they manage to be near-uniformly excellent with a variety of authors.)

Jim Toth

Jim Toth wrote on August 22, 2004 at 11:03 AM:

Reading this year's Hugo nominees actually reduced that guilt somewhat, because I found them a distinctly mixed bag. Oh good; now I feel less guilty about not reading them at all this year. Not that my guilt can go away entirely, since voting is one of the main reasons I get supporting memberships.

Kate

Kate wrote on August 22, 2004 at 3:42 PM:

Well, there are some good ones; see the reviews below. And other people have said they found it a strong year; what do I know?