Sunday, January 18, 2009

Rooms Of Paradise - Leigh Harding

An originally anthology, and a pretty reasonable specimen of such at 3.42, of science fiction. Certainly a few of the SF horror flavour, even if of the funnier sort like Pie Row Joe and The Savage Mouth.

The Australian contingent here certainly supply by far the strongest stories - Lake, McKay, Broderick, Turner.

Rooms of Paradise : Indifference - Brian W. Aldiss
Rooms of Paradise : Pie Row Joe - Kevin McKay
Rooms of Paradise : The Falldown of Man - Cherry Wilder
Rooms of Paradise : The Savage Mouth - Sakyo Komatsu
Rooms of Paradise : Re-deem the Time - David J. Lake
Rooms of Paradise : Our Neighbour by David Copperfield - Gene Wolfe
Rooms of Paradise : The Rooms of Paradise - Ian Watson
Rooms of Paradise : Ignorant of Magic - Philippa C. Maddern
Rooms of Paradise : Collaborating - Michael Bishop
Rooms of Paradise : A Passage in Earth - Damien Broderick
Rooms of Paradise : Bequest of Wings - R. A. Lafferty
Rooms of Paradise : In a Petri Dish Upstairs - George Turner


Church colony.

3 out of 5


Firestarter's mistake, mate.

4 out of 5


Playing human.

3 out of 5


Eat itself investigation.

3.5 out of 5


Space race wimpout = backwards people.

4.5 out of 5


Pitiless rich.

3 out of 5


Rebirth lost.

3 out of 5


Flick time.

2.5 out of 5


Two headed mutant marriage.

3.5 out of 5


Extension girl explains nature of reality, seeks misery.

4 out of 5


Mutation not handy.

3 out of 5


Orbital-Earthworm relationships and differences with brainwashing meltdown muscular mayhem.

4 out of 5




3.5 out of 5

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