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Cowboy Angels
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74(11)
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Published by Gollancz on June 12, 2008
First Published by Gollancz in 2007
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Review Rating: 80
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But now, with Cowboy Angels, he seems to have found a productive way to marry the hard-edged thriller with ideas-rich science fiction. [...] one of the most exciting SF adventures of the year.
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Review Rating: 40
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At his best, yes, he was one of the finest short story writers we have seen. But he was not always at his best. One of the things this exhaustive and exhausting series demonstrates is how much that is mediocre surrounds those stories on which his reputation deservedly stands.
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Review Rating: 60
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If everything in the collection had the power, the focus, the economy of [the last] two brief tales this would have been a book full of vital messages from the world of Story. As it is, there are still intriguing hints about the ways we read our world.
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The New Space Opera
(Science Fiction)
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70(4)
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Published by Eos on September 01, 2008
First Published by Eos in 2007
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Review Rating: 60
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In space operatic terms too many of these stories are actually quite dull, and that is one thing space opera should never be. Mindless, maybe, but not dull. Yet here the arrangement is the other way round, there is if anything too much mind on display: thoughtful SF does not fit with full-blooded space opera.
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The New Weird
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82(4)
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Published by Tachyon Publications on February 01, 2008
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Review Rating: 60
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It quickly becomes clear that this is a book to be dipped into, rather than read straight through at a go.
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Review Rating: 60
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Dust is an entertaining novel, with an attractive pair of protagonists and a hint of (unconsummated) lesbian chic, a carefully worked-out plot, and a smooth writing style that keeps you turning the pages. But in the end, it feels slight.
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Review Rating: 80
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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology is, one of the best reprint anthologies I have encountered in a long time, judged purely on the quality of the stories contained within it.
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Review Rating: 60
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At its most interesting, fantasy is a form that allows an awful lot of play with the nature of story itself, and yet virtually none of the writers gathered here take that opportunity to play.
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House of Suns
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77(11)
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Published by Ace Hardcover on June 02, 2009
First Published by Gollancz in 2008
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Review Rating: 80
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In other words, whenever Reynolds narrows the focus, he fumbles. But that's not why we read him. We read him for the wide-screen baroque he carries off with such élan, and in that House of Suns is no disappointment.
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Review Rating: 80
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One of the things that science fiction does is look at how it might be, if our dreams or nightmares came true.
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