This has some really good stories. I tend to read more fanstasy thatn Schience Fiction, o I did not read all of the stories in here. " A Seige of Cranes" was particularly good.

RELEASE NOTES:

Released at the Crossing Center off of Betteravia

Imagine my suprise when I got home from buying books today to see that one of them was already registered! I shop at a few local thrift stores for books to release for bookcrossing
(especially for my zone- OBCZ JoeMommas in Avila Beach, CA)
don't know where this book has been for the last few months, but it has found a possible reader in me and also a person who will make sure it moves along once again!

Amazon Editorial Review:
For the first time ever, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has assembled the best science fiction and the best fantasy stories of the year in one volume. More than just two books for the price of one, this book brings together over 200,000 words of the best genre fiction anywhere. Strahan's critical eye and keen editorial instincts have served him well for earlier best of the year round-ups in the Best Short Novels, Science Fiction: Best of and Fantasy: Best of series, and this is his most impressive effort yet.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

I love my books enough to set them free for others to enjoy...hope that is you, but if not feel free to pass it along for another to enjoy!
Booklist
This is an excellent sampling of some of the most interesting contemporary voices in sf and fantasy, including Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, Kelly Link, and Paul Di Filippo, tackling a pleasingly wide range of subject matter. Jeffrey Ford's "Night Whiskey" concerns the strange customs of a small town and the terrible things that sometimes come out of the unknown. Christopher Rowe's "Another Word for Map Is Faith" concerns a future in which the faithful of Christendom traverse the earth, "correcting" geography to conform to the errors on maps. The volume closer, Ian McDonald's "Djinn's Wife," is a lovely fairy tale of the future about a dancer who marries an AI; as the narrator observes, even if it doesn't have a happy ending like a Bollywood movie, it has a happy enough ending.

happy holidays to my secret santa, I saw that you liked science fiction, so I hope this is a fun read for you!



"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster

Ahh, now science fiction... you can't really go wrong with a book that has Neil Gaiman and Ian McDonald as some of the writers, can you?

Many thanks for this, a definite TBR!

I am taking this to the Nottingham Uncon.

Picked up at the Unconvention because I like science-fiction especially short stories.

Rather excited to see how far this book has gone! I've been to the Yorkshire Dales (Bainbridge, Wensleydale/Hawes area) which I think is somewhere close to this book's location now.

Sith clicked the phone off. She opened the trunk of the car and tossed the phone into it. Being telephoned by ghosts was so . . . unmodern. How could Cambodia become a number one country if its cell phone network was haunted?

As I progressed through the book, I realised that a large number of the stories were to do with death in one form or another. I suppose it could be a coincidence, but was there something about 2006 that inspired authors to write about death and its aftermath, or did the editor have an affinity for those subjects that predisposed him to choose those stories?

After fifteen stories about death in a row, I was thrilled to come across something more light-hearted when I read "D.A." by Connie Willis, but it was straight back to death and destruction for the last few stories. The only two stories that I didn't really enjoy were "A Siege of Cranes" which was quite gruesome (although I liked the jackal-headed men and their quest to perform funeral rites for the dead of the world), and "Sob in the Silence" which I would say was horror rather than fantasy.

To be released at tomorrow's meet-up and left on the cafe bookshelves if no-one takes it.

Picked up at the last meet I went to and overlooked in my haste to put it on my shelf.

As if I don't read enough Science Fiction, Beebarf decided I should read this. Some short stories by some authors that I like so hopefully should be a good read.

I've had this book a while, and recently finally got round to reading more than the first story (How to talk to Girls and Parties). An interesting array of short stories, some by authors I have read before an others new. A really interesting book. I have left at this book swap library for someone else to pick up.