4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader, May 14, 2008
Plenty of good stories to be found this year says editor Harrison. Certainly a significant improvement over the dud they put out the year before, as this editions averages 3.50. No 5s, but a 4.5 and several 4s to be found.
One amusing addition that is worth a bonus 0.5 is Gahan Wilson's horror movie pocket computer, which apparently you plug where you are up to in a dodgy movie, and choose a possible end, and go to bed.
In a competing series, a mention was made of using this to write one paragraph stories, after putting in a few SF writer names in place of the generic 'man' and 'woman' etc.
Harrison Aldiss 08 : After King Kong Fell - Philip José Farmer
Harrison Aldiss 08 : When Petals Fall - Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Paleontology: An Experimental Science - Robert R. Olsen
Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Women Men Don't See - James Tiptree
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Listen with Big Brother - Brian W. Aldiss
Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Rise of Airstrip One - Clive James
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Owing to Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained - Alan Coren
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Lost and Found - Thomas Baum
Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Four-Hour Fugue - Alfred Bester
Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Scream - Kate Wilhelm
Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Execut1oner's Beautiful Daughter - Angela Carter
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Songs of War - Kit Reed
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Time Deer - Craig Strete
Harrison Aldiss 08 : A Typical Day - Doris Piserchia
Harrison Aldiss 08 : Programmed Love Story - Ian Watson
Bystander big ape story.
4 out of 5
Immortality message rejection.
4 out of 5
If you make a Rex, they will break stuff, eat stuff, kill stuff. Imagine that.
4.5 out of 5
Crash alien intro.
4 out of 5
Patriotic crims.
3.5 out of 5
Concorde silly.
3 out of 5
Flat out of rats, sorry.
3.5 out of 5
Play generation.
3 out of 5
Dry and stinky on the nose.
4 out of 5
Running out of people. Scientists, too.
4 out of 5
The high chop f3tish unrewarded.
3 out of 5
Revolution women, non-stick.
4 out of 5
Everybody watching.
2 out of 5
Breeding experiment demands.
3 out of 5
Wife wh0re personality.
3 out of 5
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