Reviews for The night of the funny hats

The average rating for The night of the funny hats based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-08 00:00:00 Margarita Quintana As most collections of short stories, this one also has its better and worse stories. However, what I think makes it a worthwhile read is that all stories were written to order in the year 2000 and they all deal with the internet in one way or another. I found it interesting to observe how the perception of the internet, emails, etc. have changed in the fourteen years (the stories were written in 2000, I read the book in 2014). So, I guess most will find some stories they will like, as the authors seems to be quite different in their approaches and imagination, but I guess you will enjoy the book even more if you also look at the collection as your own sociological/historical study of the understanding of the internet.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-09 00:00:00 Tammy Tucker Review of "Is there anybody there?" by Kim Newman This... wasn't an easy story for me to read. While I could appreciate the technological side and the humour of the situation, I far from appreciated the mystical side. As a Christian, I stay as far away from Ouija boards and anything related as possible. So to read this story took some perseverance. Overall, the situation is amusing. A seance is being conducted, the medium trying to reach the 'other side' at the request of her client, who wishes to contact a dead fiance. For whatever reason, from 2001 an internet user called Boyd taps into the seance and becomes the de facto "ghost" communicating from the "other side". So, not much time travel, really (since this is, after all, in The Time Traveller's Almanac), as there is a... joining of times in a... spooky... manner. I don't really have much to say on this beyond what I've said. If it weren't for my dislike of anything related to Ouija boards, this would probably have been more amusing than I already found it, and it's very clever, really. A well written story, with an excellent conclusion. But I didn't enjoy reading it.