Reviews

Science Fiction: The Best Of 2003 by Lucius Shepard, Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Strahan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Howard Waldrop, Susan Mosser, Stephen Baxter, Neil Gaiman, David D. Levine, Karen Haber, Vernor Vinge, James Patrick Kelly, George Saunders, Jeffrey Ford

nwhyte's review

http://nhw.livejournal.com/211123.html[return][return]Not madly impressed; most of the stories I had read before as they were Hugo or Nebula finalists, or collected somewhere else, and the remaining ones were generally not up to much. (Honourable mentions though to "Flowers for Alice" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, and especially to "Only Partly Here", by Lucius Shepard, the first successful genre story I've read about 9/11). There is also a surprisingly unprofessional level of misprints.

porsane's review

3.0

A fairly uneven selection of last decades SF - the standouts are The Empire of Ice Cream, a nice existential chiller and Only Partly Here - a slow burning 9/11 gothic story.