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chirson's review
3.0
(I didn't read all of it, I flipped through and read those that interested me, rating based on those.)
I wish they'd had someone to answer to Christopher Priest's odd attack on Clarke award 2012, I remember how odd that was and that there was a lot of controversy, so an inclusion of a response might have been useful, but perhaps the timeframe didn't permit it.
I wish they'd had someone to answer to Christopher Priest's odd attack on Clarke award 2012, I remember how odd that was and that there was a lot of controversy, so an inclusion of a response might have been useful, but perhaps the timeframe didn't permit it.
robotwitch's review
3.0
While including a large and varied collection of reviews, essays and blog posts, some of these were really wobbly on quality, and probably did not deserve placement in this collection. An interesting read, with some great thoughts put across, but the reviews, in particular, were hit and miss, especially a few that attempted a poor humour. I will be reading the 2013 edition in hopes that this will have improved, and will provide more of the good things this collection held.
nwhyte's review
4.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2307449.html[return][return]I am easily pleased sometimes. This is a collection of online commentary on sf which was published in 2012, pulling together the sorts of essays I always like reading and wish I could write more often. All the usual suspects are here - in-depth examinations of race and gender as they are manifested in the genre, but also simple critiques of writing as writing. It's not perfect - the internal ordering of the pieces seems half thought through (is it alphabetical by author's first name? Not quite, but if not, then what?) and I would have dropped most of the shorter pieces in favour of some more long ones - but I was pretty sure from an early stage that I would give it a high place on my Hugo ballot. Then I reached page 297 and found my own name in the first line. Yep, I'm easily pleased.
kimtrucks's review
4.0
Really good variety of articles, often contradicting each other. Very broad in approach and concerns.
tregina's review
3.0
As I began to get excited for the coming 2014 edition in this series, I suddenly realised I'd never actually finished reading the 2012 book. It was interesting going back from the distance of just a couple of years and seeing parts of conversations I remembered, and the seeds of things that would be a much larger part of the 2013 collection. Some of the pieces were excellent and some were slight or uneven, and I was particularly pleased that some of them I disagreed with very much. Issues have many sides and it's good to see some of them coexisting here.
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