The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction

by Robert Reed, Connie Willis, Peter F. Hamilton, et al.

Book Overview

Twenty leading science fiction authors, including Stephen Baxter, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, and Connie Willis, chronicle the changes and surprises that might befall humanity in the centuries to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786710047
• ISBN13: 9780786710041
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

the mammoth book of science fiction

I think these short stories are very good. You get to the end of the story instead of reading 300or 400 pages.

real science fiction

In the Introduction Mike Ashley writes that science fiction is a literature of ideas. Many authors and editors who claim to work on the field these days seem to have forgotten this. (or maybe they never knew) But Mr.Ashley delivers in the grand tradition. This is an awsome collection of original ideas. The stories are varied, interesting, deep, funny, spooky - but all are good.If you think that SF should be about original ideas and not tired cliches then this book is for you. Mr.Ashley appears to be a slightly better editor then Hartwell, and way way better then Dozois.