The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
by Jonathan Strahan
Taste attributes: science fictionfantasyadventurefresh & originalimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotive & stirringsocial commentaryall consuming questunlikely connections
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, moving science-fiction novel: stylish and sweeping. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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Exhalation / Ted Chiang -- Shoggoths in bloom / Elizabeth Bear -- Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel / Peter S. Beagle -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer -- The gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi -- The dust assassin / Ian McDonald -- Virgin / Holly Black -- Pride and Prometheus / John Kessel -- The thought war / Paul McAuley -- Beyond the sea gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix -- The small door /...
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- Author
- Jonathan Strahan
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 496
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- Open Library
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