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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by William Tenn, Octavia E. Butler, Frederik Pohl, Joanna Russ, Judith Merril, Harlan Ellison, Nancy Kress, Kate Wilhelm, Philip K. Dick, Cordwainer Smith, Carol McGuirk, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian W. Aldiss, Edmond Hamilton, Theodore Sturgeon, Bruce Sterling, Eileen Gunn, Misha Nogha, J.G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, William Gibson, Jules Verne, Rob Latham, Joan Gordon, Pamela Zoline, John Varley, Arthur B. Evans, Frank Herbert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Pat Cadigan, R.A. Lafferty, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, C.L. Moore, Stanisław Lem, Avram Davidson, Alfred Bester, Arthur C. Clarke, Carol Emshwiller, E.M. Forster, Robert A. Heinlein, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Veronica Hollinger, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, James Tiptree Jr., Leslie F. Stone

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Overall, I really enjoyed this anthology.  I enjoyed most of the stories and thought they were well chosen and interesting to read.  The only two stories I didn’t like where two of the cyberpunk ones, the first as it felt rather in creative and the women felt like stereotypes.  It read like a bit noir fiction with a disguise of cyberpunk to make it seem like it was doing more than it really was.  The other story was written from the point of view of an Arabic person and felt like a collection of harmful stereotypes disguised as a novel.  
Whilst there was some diversity among the writers, I wish they had done even more in this respect as I felt like there were probably lots of new and unique stories from diverse that could have added some different voices to this anthology.  Overall though, a really well thought out and interesting collection, and I enjoyed reading it immensely.
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