Reviews

Eurotemps by Liz Holliday, Molly Brown, Marcus L. Rowland, Brian Stableford, David Langford, Jenny M. Jones, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, Chris Amies, Storm Constantine, Neil Gaiman, Alex Stewart, Anne Gray, Graham Joyce, Tina Anghelatos

nwhyte's review

http://nhw.livejournal.com/959983.html[return][return]A collection of stories setting the UK government's Department of Paranormal Resources in a European context, apparently a sequel to an earlier collection; a British, more bureaucratic version of the Wild Cards stories. Interesting to realise that back in 1992 there was far less Europhobia around in British culture - compare the mild mocking of Brussels here with the irresponsible paranoia of the Daily Mail. Most of the stories are fairly standard stuff given the scenario; it starts with a rather good one by David Langford which I hadn't previously read, and I really enjoyed the second last, by Roz Kaveney, whose fiction I don't think I have otherwise encountered.

chramies's review

4.0

I was in the civil service when I wrote my story in this book, which makes it meta in some way. TBH I think my contribution to Liz Holliday's excellent story (i.e. providing the Spanish-language input for the title) was more significant than my own mediocre tale.