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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror) 9 reviews
Kelly Link, Gavin Grant
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Consistently Entertaining Fiction
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ Always excellent
+ Another great year of fiction...though not as great as last year's
+ As always an esstential collection
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Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (Fantasy: The Best of ... (Quality))1 review
Rich Horton
Prime Books, 2007
Not Free SF Reader
The shorter, more whimsical pieces it seemed I didn't like as much here. However, this anthology still averages 3.53. Now given by my numbers I rate fantasy stories 0.20 to 0.25 lower or thereabouts in general, that would seem to be the equivalent of the various Year's Best SF series, for me, at ...
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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales 11 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Harper Perennial, 2005
An Outstanding Collection, Indeed
+ Bradbury Stories
+ ...
+ Very good read
+ Not Free SF Reader
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Amazing Fantasy Omnibus Volume 1 HC - Variant
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, ...
Marvel Comics, 2007
"We Were Trapped in the Twilight World!" "I Led the Strange Search for Manoo!" "I Come from the Black Void!" Wow, what a life, huh? All part of Marvel's most amazing fantasy adventures, collected here for the first time! Meet the Man Who Captured Death, the Man in the Mummy Case and the Man in the Sky, one of Marvel's earliest mutant heroes! Monsters both microscopic and megalithic - like Torr, ...
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A Separate War and Other Stories6 reviews
Joe Haldeman
Ace Hardcover, 2006
A young writer who became an award winner in his genre.
+ Haldeman's Latest Collection
+ Great Set of Short Stories!!
+ Haldeman - The Award Winner!
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Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples12 reviews
Cleis Press, 2004
very good
+ EXCELLENT, EROTIC READING
+ Hot!
+ Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 18th Annual Collection8 reviews
St. Martin's Press, 2005
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ Still wonderfully diverse...
+ Outstanding Quality and Variety of Stories! Not to be Missed!
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The Best of Philip Jose Farmer
Philip Jose Farmer
Subterranean Press, 2006
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The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (Revised and Expanded) 13 reviews
Harlan Ellison
Morpheus International, 2005
I Have No Book, And I Must Read
+ A treat !!
+ it's ellison and it's the size of a brick! :)
+ Life without Ellison would be dull
+ Xenogenesis and so much more
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Spook Country 156 reviews
William Gibson
Putnam Adult, 2007
so real...
+ Still good
+ Cyberpunk meets John le Carré, but not Tom Clancy.
So real after these last money melting weeks.
A must read to get away from it all.
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (Science Fiction: The Best of ... (Quality))4 reviews
Rich Horton
Prime Books, 2007
Not Free SF Reader
+ The cover copy has been fixed
+ Bad cover design at work
This book, if you have the paper version, and not the electronic, is not putting you in as much danger of bonebreaking if dropped it seems as some of the others, being a fairly normal sort of book length, leaving room for around a dozen stories.
The editor also writes an introduction to explain ...
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A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories6 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Harper Perennial, 2005
The Quintessential Collection of Short Stories by Ray Bradbury
+ A Sound Of Thunder and Other Stories
+ Critic should see the movie before they pan it.
+ Bradbury: Common Man's Star Gazer
+ An excellent book, but a dirty trick
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Ryan McGinness: A Rich Fantasy Life
Ryan McGinness
Quint Contemporary Art, 2007
A Rich Fantasy Life explodes with sharp colorful new paintings by Ryan McGinness, an artist who "has mastered and integrated a seemingly infinite variety of visual languages, producing works that inhabit the ever-blurred border between high art and popular illustration," according to Artforum. This 144-page hardback concentrates on the artist's lush paintings of layered iconic worlds. It also ...
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Feminist Fantasies 35 reviews
Phyllis Schlafly
Spence Publishing Company, 2003
Radical feminism is a pain for every decent woman!
+ "WE ARE BECOMING THE MEN WE ONCE WANTED TO MARRY."
This book is a very important publication. Finally women are standing up, speaking strongly out against unreasonable demands from feminists, who are nothing but a small, however verbally strong group looking for advantages solely out of the fact, that they are women.
Such feminism has nothing to ...
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Masters of Fantasy (Baen Science Fiction)
Baen, 2005
Masters of Fantasy has a star-studded cast of popular fantasy writers, each offering a brand new adventure set in his or her most popular series. Among the stellar cast are David Weber, Mercedes Lackey (with a new Valdemar story), Mickey Zucker Reichert, Andre Norton, Elizabeth Moon, David Drake, Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye (collaborating on a story in which their separate series collide with ...
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The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007 (Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)5 reviews
George Mann
Solaris, 2007
These stories explore the outer limits of the fantasy and sci fi genres
+ Hoping for another volumne
+ Promising Look at a New Imprint
George Mann edits THE SOLARIS BOOK OF NEW SCIENCE FICTION, a fine short story collection featuring fine writers of the likes of Stephen Baxter, Eric Brown, Ian Watson and more. These stories explore the outer limits of the fantasy and sci fi genres, from a futuristic murder mystery to space opera - ...
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Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy9 reviews
Firebird, 2006
Appealing collection of YA SF and Fantasy
+ Original sci-fi stories
+ A Few Gems That Sparkle Among the Coal
Firebirds Rising is an engaging mix of SF and Fantasy stories aimed at a young adult audience, though quite enjoyable for adults as well.
Two of my favorites are Science Fiction: Carol Emshwiller's "Quill", an oddly old-fashioned, charming yet sad, story of an isolated family and their curious ...
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100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories2 reviews
Doubleday, 1984
Great collection of very short stories
+ STUFFED!
I read this book years ago, but I can still recite two of the stories in it almost word-for-word. It helps that they're short (every story has to be under two thousand words), but some of the stories are really exceptional. And for those that aren't great... big deal! How long does it take to ...
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The Solaris Book of New Fantasy6 reviews
Solaris, 2007
Excellent Overview of the Fantasy Field
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ Strong Overview
I am very impressed with this anthology. I liked 13 out of 16 stories - which is as good a number as I ever get from an anthology. What's more - I understood and applauded the reason for the inclusion of the three I wasn't wowed by. What George has done, and what makes this anthology so useful to ...
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Year's Best Fantasy 7 (Year's Best Fantasy)2 reviews
Tachyon Publications, 2007
Not Free SF Reader
The editor says in the introduction they changed format possibly to present more work, and says he'd really like to publish half a million words. He doesn't say how large the wordcount was in the last book, or in this one, but presumably this is bigger.
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