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The problem with reading a collection of short stories is that I’m left with an emptiness at the end of each story. I find myself wanting more of the story when it ends. Best of British Science Fiction 2018 was written exclusively by British science fiction authors. One thing I notice about these writers is that they are masters of subtlety. Revelations in the stories are understated, unlike American writings, and each writer attempts to end his or her story with psychological perplexity. A few
Not going to review something I am in
Meh.
This is an anthology of short fiction representing the field of British SF in 2018. Most of the stories reminded me of short fiction from 40 years ago, in the sense that the plotting and pacing is similar: an SF-nal idea is introduced, it affects our characters, and a twist happens at the end for good or for ill. This is not a bad formula and satisfies the itch for idea-driven fiction, but the result is that most stories are clever but not deep. For many of them, I thought they came to a resolut...
In her Introduction, Donna Scott vents her ire about a big name literary author who announced he was going to dip his toe in genre waters and write a science fiction novel about ‘human dilemmas’, the implication being that the present crew of hacks in the field should be sobbing with gratitude. As the editor points out, there’s a lot of stuff out already doing that, including the crop harvested here. Some highlights below. In ‘Talking to Ghosts at the Edge of the World’ by Lavie Tidhar nearly ev...
Although you might not expect it from the title, this is a collection of science fiction short stories by British authors written in 2018. Best-ofs are always a mixed bag, because the editor's tastes might not always match my own. Generally a wider pool is a good thing, so I'm not sure a best-of devoted specifically to British SF of a single year was particularly important to my reading diet but I got the book in a bundle and needed something that didn't require a super amount of investment so I...
3.5 starsThis is a quite solid and varied anthology, and an excellent way to discover the kind of science fiction that it’s being written in Great Britain right now, which, after finishing this book, I’d say it’s more to my taste than most of today’s American short science fiction. Although most of the pieces were just good, not outstanding, nearly all of them were worth the time I spent reading them. I read quite a lot of science fiction short stories so it’s was a surprise to find that around
