Reviews for The dragons of Springplace

The average rating for The dragons of Springplace based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-06 00:00:00 Raymond Lu This is a pretty large early collection of Robert Reed short stories. Reed as usual, uses his planet sized ship as a backdrop to many of his stories. Although it has not been named, yet, at this stage which is kinda cool seeing early workings of this setting. The rest are all sci-fi related with his usual mystery novel theme. All the stories work pretty good. Most are novella sized stories and made for quite a lot of engrossing stories, that led to multiple sittings to finish. Reed may not be the best writer out there, but there is something I like about his work. His short work is actually really good. He reminds me of Robert Silverberg a little. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-17 00:00:00 Ken Shiloff I took a while to warm up to this collection. The first two stories were dark, and I didn't find any of the characters sympathetic. I was eventually won over by the imagination and depth of the stories that followed, however. Two of my favorites were "The Remoras," about a cautious woman who elects to alter her body and live as an alien, and "The Shape of Everything," about an elderly scientist telling a colleague about a defining childhood experience at summer camp. As with Neil Gaiman's writing, I think I prefer Reed's short stories to his novels (so far), where his imagination and ideas are liberated from the need to construct a complex plot.