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“Never before have so many been threatened with so much…Never has so much been promised to so many.”

The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF by Judith Merril (Editor)

April 11, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is a pretty long and comprehensive collection of good SF from 1963 (384 pages, so you’re definitely getting a lot). I enjoyed most of these stories and breezed through this on the Amtrak to and from visiting home. My mom also enjoyed the chunk she read while I was home, so it’s intergenerationally approved. However, nothing in here really blew me away and it all felt pretty standard and not hugely boundary pushing or subversive. Sometimes you do just need to read some classic […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, classic sci-fi, Judith Merril (Editor), short story collection

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, classic sci-fi, Judith Merril (Editor), short story collection ·
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