Reviews for The iceworld connection

The average rating for The iceworld connection based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-26 00:00:00 Dev Test A great collection of stories, originally published in science fiction mags from 1970 to 1974. My favorites are "Ill-Met in Lankhmar", the chronologically first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story by Fritz Lieber "The Word for World os Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. I had read it before in Again, Dangerous Visions, but this time it had so much more impact on me. It may have been written with Vietnam in mind, but it's just as relevant now. "A Song For Lya" by George R.R. Martin. Very different from the Game of Thrones series, but just as good. I even liked the Poul Anderson stories here. When he's not trying to hammer home his libertarian ideas, he can be quite poetic and affecting. There are two Harlan Ellison stories in here, too. Although he's one of my favorite SF writers, his Hugo winning stories are not generally my favorites. But they still provide food for thought.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-06-22 00:00:00 Jennifer Jackson The only story I truly liked from this was The Word for World is Forest, but even that was flawed, too earnest, and too cliched (just once I'd like to see humans try to go all conquistador on natives that aren't small & cute & childlike). 'Eurema's Dam' was interesting. Parts of me made me think that if Albert had been named Steve, Mark, or Elon the author would have been truly prescient. "Nothing rises without a leaven, but the yeast is itself a fungus and a disease.... When there are no longer any deprived or insufficient, who will invent?" A Song for Lya makes me wish Martin hadn't gotten involved in epic fantasy. I've no interest in his juggernaut, but this was good and so was Tuf Voyaging, imo. This has an interesting variant of a 'grok' thing going. I tried to read almost everything, but of course there were a few I skipped because they were familiar from other anthologies. Which is good, because now it's off my shelf, and also I don't have to decide how to round 1.5 star rating because it's a DNF and I have a policy to avoid rating those.