Minireview: Best New SF 22, edited by Gardner Dozois
Best New SF 22 is the UK edition of Gardner Dozois’ long-running yearly “best of” anthology, also published (confusingly enough) in the US as “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” with a different numbering scheme. They are the same anthology though, and as always quite brilliant – Dozois has an excellent taste in short stories (or at least one that’s very compatible with mine), and his picks tend to really contain the “best of” for a certain year.
This anthology documents the year 2008 in science fiction. Highlights for me were “The Six Directions of Space” (Alastair Reynolds), “The Political Prisoner” (Charles Coleman Finlay), “The Hero” (Karl Schroeder), “His Master’s Voice” (Hannu Rajaniemi) and “The Voyage Out” (Gwyneth Jones)… but really, pretty much all of the stories here deserve mention, the quality is extremely high. This is the first time that I’ve noticed a Finnish writer in this collection, and to top that his story was quite excellent. So… grats, Hannu, seems I need to read more of your stuff.
If you’re looking for excellent science fiction short stories, you really can’t go wrong with this series (or the alternate US printing).
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:16 Posted in Books
Tags best new sf, garder dozois
