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Isaac Asimov's Werewo

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The latest anthology reprints from the Asimov magazine centers on werewolves and as expected from that illustrious publication the stores are all great. The time frames vary adding to the depth of the mix. The stories take readers seemingly everywhere. One tale involves a Viking visit to the new world before Columbus. Another centers on a wild ride on the Orient Express in the nineteenth century. The 1950's South hosts a story. The American Western frontier provides the backdrop for a firth tale. Finally, the remaining entries take the audience on a weird trip in modern times. Each tale holds in common two things: werewolves are a featured character(s) and all six are excellent tales.

Several of the tales are award winners, but all deserved recognition. Fans of horror short stories and anyone who relishes a werewolf tale with a bite will gain much pleasure from this collection that lives up to the Asimov label.

Harriet Klausner

This is a series of short stories, from various authors (not Asimov)each having a werewolf theme. There's no point in me giving splot summaries for several short stories, but a couple of the stories are a real interesting read, in particular the very first story in the anthology is great by Gregg Keizer, it's about a Viking ship at sea which may or may not have a werewolf in its crew. It's a dark story, filled with lore, and drama. It's worth buying the book just for that.

I am a huge werewolf fan, especially of lycanthropy as a metaphor of teenage female puberty/menstruation (Ginger Snaps, Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate). Therefore, I greatly enjoyed the stories "Boobs" and "An American Childhood".

"Madonna of the Wolves" and "What Seen But the Wolf" were fascinating in their premises, but lagged at times. "Red" and "Two Bad Dogs" were my least favorite, they seemed out of place for some reason.

It's a good compilation, and worth a look if you're a werewolf lover.

First of all let me tell you that because of the title of this book I thought that most, or at least, some of the stories in it were written by Isaac Asimov himself, but thats not the case.

This is just a compilation of some stories that have appeared in Asimov's magazine, not stories that were written by him.

I accept that it may have been my fault for not noticing it at the time I bought the book but anyway because of this I was so dissapointed with the book that I never really got into it.

I have to admit some of the stories were good and I like them, but some I didn't finish and others I didn't even start.
Since I recently realized that I would never finsh this book I donated it to my local library.

If you are an Asimov's magazine fan you will probably like this book even though some of the stories couldn't catch my attention, but if you want to read stories written by Asimov himself look elsewhere.

I'll keep it short and sweet. This is a compilation of shortstories that appeared in Asimov's magazine. The stories were readable and some even enjoyable. The one thing that bothered me is the fact that in almost every story the werewolves were very civilized and always turned into actual wolves. Now as a fan of werewolves I dont find that to much of a turn off excvept for the fact that its fun to somtimes read a story were the werewolf is some huge beastly creature that is preying on inocent people and the main char. are just trying to survive or kill it. The one story in this book that didnt turn our shapeshifting friends into the normal woodland creature ( Two Bad Dogs) was so poorly writen and so completley BAD that i could have writen better when i was 16. If you can find this book cheap or just really love werewolves like i do then go ahead and pick it up.

Very interesting compliation of shortstories. The stories are well written except for the overwhelming use of profane language. The use of vulgar language in the stories by the writers seemed to take most of the enjoyment of reading away for me. Seems to me other, more suitable, words could have been used. The book is profane!