Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR18
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • 2026 Registration
    • Suggest a Review
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

“The stories in this anthology trust their worlds and characters completely, and because we can sense the author’s confidence, we are willing to trust them in return.”

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by Edited by R.F. Kuang

January 7, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is always one of the highlights of my reading year; I do love a SF/F collection and the contemporary field really clicks with me (more than those 1960s/1970s collections I keep subjecting myself to). John Joseph Adams does a great job setting this up, reviewing all the stories of the year (a gargantuan task), and providing the series editor with 80 stories to choose from. I like seeing what the year’s editor has to say and what picks they make. Having a different editor […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: best of the year, Edited by R.F. Kuang, fantasy stories, science fiction stories, SF/F, short story collection

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: best of the year, Edited by R.F. Kuang, fantasy stories, science fiction stories, SF/F, short story collection ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments


Recent Comments

  • wicherwill
    on Comforting message but … (it’s definitely me, not you, novellas)
    I haven't re-read this since originally reading them but I remember being in a state of change (temporarily living in...
  • wicherwill
    on Can’t wait to see how this connects to The Mercy of the Gods
    ughhh yes I can't remember enough of The Mercy of the Gods to confidentially read the next one but also...
  • wicherwill
    on Diary of a Mad Tradwife
    My book club is waiting for the Libby rush to die down to read this together--I keep dabbling at reviews...
  • wicherwill
    on “Now, in a growing number of cities across the country, when a victim testified, she no longer did so alone.”
    Oof this feels like another one that I'd love to read during the summer when the sun can counteract the...
  • wicherwill
    on Rethinking Assumptions About Adoption
    I commented an abbreviated version of this on the Instagram post but -- because I've always been so ambivalently (but...
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission, Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2026 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in