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fearandtrembling's review
2.0
For what's touted "best", there's a lot of mediocrity.
For what's touted "speculative", there's a lot of "ho-hum, I've read this exact story several times before". And I know that's unfair, and as someone who writes, the accusation of writers writing the same story is a tedious, almost lazy criticism, and it's not that I don't want to read the same story over and over again--what is life, after all, but the same story--but that the telling of it has to be special, distinctive, memorable, or something, and it was very hard to find those moments in this anthology.
For what's touted "speculative", there's a lot of "ho-hum, I've read this exact story several times before". And I know that's unfair, and as someone who writes, the accusation of writers writing the same story is a tedious, almost lazy criticism, and it's not that I don't want to read the same story over and over again--what is life, after all, but the same story--but that the telling of it has to be special, distinctive, memorable, or something, and it was very hard to find those moments in this anthology.
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