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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0876208
EAN: 9780312088477
ISBN: 0312088477
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: January 15, 1993
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Brian Aldiss
William Gibson
R.A. Lafferty
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lucius Shepard
Bruce Sterling
Theodore Sturgeon
Howard Waldrop
Connie Willis
Gene Wolfe
Roger Zelazny
"The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."
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Dozois picks some of his favorites from recent decades, and avoids some of the stories that have been very commonly published. He also gives an intro for each author.
Modern Classics of Science Fiction : The Country of the Kind - Damon Knight
Modern Classics of Science Fiction : Aristotle and the Gun - L. Sprague de Camp
Modern Classics of Science Fiction : The Other Celia - Theodore Sturgeon
Modern Classics of Science Fiction : Casey Agonistes - Richard M. McKenna ... Read More
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great selection and commentaries on books, highly enjoyed the book
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It is very rare for me to enjoy more than half of any anthology, but I loved 75% of this one. The stories in here, although by "classic" authors, are rare and fun. This volume knocks the socks off of any "Year's Best ..." I can't praise it enough.
Here are the three best stories:
The Fifth Head of Cerberus -- Gene Wolfe
This Moment of the Storm -- Roger Zelazny
The Edge of the World -- Michael Swanwick
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All anthologies run the risk of being to broad or to narrow in its choice of selections of a particular writer or genre. Dozois readily admits that his selections are highly personalized choices of works that he likes. He eliminates time lines, political correctness and other superficial criteria which would get in his way. He is to be praised for his individual taste but with a title that implies a broad selection, he falls very short of the task.
Modern Classics contains stories of ... Read More
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This collection of modern classic sci-fi novels by well-known authors is highly recommended. The authors represented include, amoung others, Robert Siverberg, Poul Andreson, Brian Aldiss and Gene Wolfe.
The quality of the stories ranges from the "just" very good (Nancy Kress' AND WILD TO HOLD, for example) to the superb (Aldiss' TOTAL ENVIORMENT and Silverberg's SAILING TO BYZANTIUM) to the extremely odd but brilliant (Cordwainer Smith's ON THE STORM PLANET and and James Kelly's MR. BOY). ... Read More
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