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thistlechaser's review against another edition
2.0
The title says it all: A collection of 14 short stories about heroes who lived in the Bronze Age.
Anthology tend to have their very best stories in the first, second, and final positions, so if the first two stories in an anthology don't work for me, I stop reading. The first two stories in this book were boring as heck, and the low rating on Amazon means I'm not alone in that opinion, so I gave up on it. DNF
yggie's review against another edition
4.0
A few of these stories were a bit of a slog, but many were quite good. Well written, about a fascinating period. It’s more historic fiction than fantasy, but to me that was actually a nice bonus.
ineffablebob's review
3.0
This short story collection has some really good stories and some...less good. I very much enjoyed just about everything in the first half of the book, especially the very first story, Gene Wolfe's "The Lost Pilgrim". (Which is odd since I haven't much liked anything else by Wolfe that I've tried, but this story is great.) I thought Noreen Doyle's "Ankhtifi the Brave is dying" was especially good as well. But the last half of the collection goes downhill - I didn't like any of the final five stories much. Anyhow, the collection is still worth reading for the first half, and perhaps others will like the later stories more than I did.
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