Reviews for State-Owned Enterprises in High Technology Industries Studies in India and Brazil

The average rating for State-Owned Enterprises in High Technology Industries Studies in India and Brazil based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-21 00:00:00 Nathan Hess This was the last volume in the Stellar series that Judy-Lynn Benjamin del Rey edited for del Rey (!) Books. Her initial goal was to present stories that were a mixture of the old-time sense-of-wonder with more "New Wave" influenced character-driven stories, but by 1981 when this one appeared that's what all of the digest-sized magazines were doing, and there were quite a few other mass-market sized paperback anthologies on the stands, such as the Destinies series edited by Jim Baen, who had coincidentally succeeded del Rey as the editor of Galaxy magazine when she moved to Ballantine. This one has nine stories, including a short Larry Niven, a pair of good James P. Hogan stories, and nice pieces from Paul A. Carter and James Tiptree, Jr. My favorite is a collaboration by Terry Carr and Leanne Frahm, Horn o' Plenty. The book has a nice retro David Mattingly cover.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-24 00:00:00 Kendall Meeks A lot of great names in this collection, and a great editor, too. But almost every story in this collection felt lazily written. Obvious "twists", forced plot complications, expository oratory, and--yeah, just lazy, like one story where the POV character's thoughts were described as thinking about option A "or something" three times in three pages. I did read them all, but on several I did flip ahead to see how many more pages I had to get through. All the ideas could make great stories, but that's usually the case. I wouldn't recommend this as an introduction to a new science fiction reader, and to a fan only if you want to read more short stories by one of these authors for completeness. I haven't read any others in this series, so can't compare.