Reviews

Edge of Infinity by An Owomoyela, Elizabeth Bear, Jonathan Strahan, Bruce Sterling, John Barnes, Gwyneth Jones, Sandra McDonald, James S.A. Corey, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, Alastair Reynolds, Hannu Rajaniemi, Stephen D. Covey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

daveversace's review against another edition

5.0

This anthology of intrasolar space fiction is straight-up worth it for the lead story alone: Pat Cadigan's "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi". On top of that you get an Expanse prequel from James S.A. Corey, a Martian settlement fable from Stephen Baxter, some great weird Jovian-aliens fic from Elizabeth Bear and a host of pieces sit on and around the moons of gas giants. I was particularly partial to Baxter's "Obelisk", Alastair Reynolds' clash of grand artistic follies and detective noir "Vainglory" and Gwyneth Jones' strange tale of remote sensing robots with copies of human minds "Bricks, Sticks, Straw".

In fact of the fourteen stories in this anthology, the only one I bounced off was Bruce Sterling's quirk study of Mercurian society "The Peak of Eternal Light" (which I'm prepared to believe would be a favourite for other people).

Highly recommended. Great value, high quality hard science fiction stories.

But really - go read the Cadigan.