Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction - Mike Ashley

Ashley has done very well here, putting together an excellent collection of stories (3.95 average), even including one he has resurrected from 1909. Nice work indeed on his extreme them.


Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Anomalies - Gregory Benford
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : ...And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Paul Di Filippo
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Crucifixion Variations - Lawrence Person
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Pacific Mystery - Stephen Baxter
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Flowers from Alice - Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Merlin's Gun - Alastair Reynolds
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Death in the Promised Land - Pat Cadigan
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Long Chase - Geoffrey A. Landis
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Waterworld - Stephen L. Gillett and Jerry Oltion
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Hoop-of-Benzene - Robert Reed
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The New Humans - B. Vallance
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Creator - Clifford D. Simak
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Girl Had Guts - Theodore Sturgeon
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Region Beyond - Harlan Ellison
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Days of Solomon Gursky - Ian McDonald
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Undone - James Patrick Kelly
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Judgement Engine - Greg Bear
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Stuffing - Jerry Oltion


Error observation religion.

4 out of 5


Needy girlfriend and too much combined crap a very bad situation.

4 out of 5


Schrodinger's Christ.

4 out of 5


Alternate nazi monster zeppelin expedition shows Pacific that time forgot lives up to hyperbole.

4 out of 5


Post-human furniture with passions.

4 out of 5


Black hole shooter crucial in prevention of stellar duo's stupendous collapse and civilisation sterilisation.

4.5 out of 5


Digital deadly doings.

3.5 out of 5


Soldier's marathon space race conversion.

4 out of 5


Resupply when dry is a problem in O2 atmosphere fry.

4 out of 5


Planet nuking and nicking plotter captain finally undone by ritual.

4 out of 5


Malleable bunch not fond of miscegenation.

3.5 out of 5


Puny humans to save a universe or three.

2.5 out of 5


New planet exploratory team has basically a face-hugger episode, without the large monster phase.

4 out of 5


Fomenting anti-Succubus insurrection.

3.5 out of 5


Dead rebellion expansion.

4.5 out of 5


A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation.

A story you might just have to read a bit of twice.

4 out of 5


Future escape a problem of many dimensions.

4.5 out of 5


Large scale libraries need some old fashioned teaching.

3.5 out of 5


Solar sustenance people's xmas dinner experiment ends with big farty-poo.

4 out of 5





5 out of 5

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