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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hits and misses,
By Alanna Evans (US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tangents (Paperback)
"Tangents" is a mixture of mostly strange, bizzarre 'hard' sci fi and a few stories that actually are easy to grasp by the casual scifi reader (which I am one). Dealing with the drawbacks of genetic programming in a very futuristic world, "Sisters" was touching emotionally, a fascinating short story that was very well written. "Blood Music", the short that spawned an entire novel by the same name, had an intriguing premise, while "Tangents" (the story) showed us the musical bridge to the fourth dimension but the real star of the show was the haunting "Dead Run" which was turned into a Twilight Zone episode. Its by far the best of the bunch. The rest range from disgustingly strange, "Sleepside Story", which is one of the worst pieces i have ever read, and a giant waste of time, and the same sentiments apply to "Webster". Casual sci fi'ers might want to look elsewhere.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sleepy selection of randomenss,
By M-I-K-E 2theD "2theD" (The Big Mango, Thailand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tangents (Paperback)
This collection of short stories by Greg Bear (his first collection published) feels as if he scoured his desk drawers looking for anything to fill the pages of this collection. His main focus was, obviously, the short story Blood Music. It's great, but the book is even more epic. And the only other story which seems to fit well into a Greg Bear short story collection would be Sisters. This is a sort of precursor to his future society based books Queen of Angels and Slant. Sisters is a healthy grassroots look at being a simple teenager in simple future times.
The rest of the stories range wildly and annoyingly from 1) a story about a man and a magical prostitute, 2) a woman and her dictionary-born boy-toy, 3) a news article about the (quite dated) future of computer graphics and animation. If you're looking for Bear SF, then look no further than The Venging, which has heaps of hard SF in a number of presentable not-pulled-from-the-back-of-his-desk-drawer stories.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader,
By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tangents (Paperback)
An earlier story collection, and he writers an introduction talking about the difference between forward looking and 'past=comforted' pepole in America, relating that to science fiction.
A pretty good bunch of stories, averaging 3.44. Tangents : Blood Music [SS] - Greg Bear Tangents : Sleepside Story - Greg Bear Tangents : Webster - Greg Bear Tangents : A Martian Ricorso - Greg Bear Tangents : Dead Run - Greg Bear Tangents : Schrödinger's Plague - Greg Bear Tangents : Through Road No Whither - Greg Bear Tangents : Tangents - Greg Bear Tangents : Sisters - Greg Bear Microcolony kill failure transfer overrun. 4 out of 5 Escort pruning promotes renewal. 3.5 out of 5 Dictionary definition not the same as the real thing. 3 out of 5 First contact rapid overtaking. 2.5 out of 5 Trucking hell, man. 3.5 out of 5 Coin toss experimental global philosophy pandemic probability. 3.5 out of 5 I see bad things for the SS. 3.5 out of 5 Music just adds that extra dimension. 4 out of 5 Designer defect death. 3.5 out of 5
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