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A review by mburnamfink
Writers of the Future Volume 25: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by L. Ron Hubbard
4.0
Writers of the Future is one of the few contests targeted explicitly at early career writers, with realistic financial rewards rather than "exposure" (people die of exposure, you know). Stories are chosen by a panel of scifi elders quarterly. With such a collection, there's going to be a lot of variance, but I enjoyed 7 of these 8 stories.
I'd like to call out for special attention "The Shadow Man" by Donald Mead, which is a creepy and wistful look at life in Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb, and "The Assignment of Runner ETI" Fiona Lehn, which has a great Hunger Games style athletic-competition as public policy endurance race at the center of a story about teamwork and human limits.
I'd like to call out for special attention "The Shadow Man" by Donald Mead, which is a creepy and wistful look at life in Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb, and "The Assignment of Runner ETI" Fiona Lehn, which has a great Hunger Games style athletic-competition as public policy endurance race at the center of a story about teamwork and human limits.