Reviews for The Mammoth book of best new science fiction

The average rating for The Mammoth book of best new science fiction based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-20 00:00:00 Karen Turner This was, overall, the weakest I've read, so far, of the first four annual best-of collections the late, great Gardner Dozois assembled. There were only a couple of stories that really jumped out at me and grabbed me: the utterly wacky, delightful "Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes" by Somtow Sucharitkul; the tender "Chance" by one of my all-time favorite authors, Connie Willis; and the Hugo- and Nebula-winning "Tangents" by Greg Bear. But many of the stories were overwrought, with thin characterizations and limp ideas. I'll continue on with my reading of the series, with hopes that future volumes will contain more gems than are in evidence here.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-02 00:00:00 Jason Bores Another interesting range of short stories. I love diving into the various goes at speculative fiction. As with all those collections that contain a wide variety of stories there are the ones that personally just don't work for me, even when others praise the authors. Yet I always find my own highlights. In this collection they were: "Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes" by Somtow Sucharitkul - a delightfully refreshing take on first conact - the Thai variant. "Chance" by Connie Willis - Hands down one of the most perfectly structured and executed short stories I've ever read "Surviving" by Judith Moffett, which I personally wouldn't count as SFF in any way. An extremely intimate psychological take on somebody growing up in the wilderness. It moved me a great deal. I'm looking forward to treasure hunt in the next volume