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The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2017 Paperback – October 3, 2017

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“This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance.” —Washington Post

Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view—literary, meta, and adventurous—to the series’ third edition.
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    The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
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    October 3, 2017
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  • Michael Menkin
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good book for any science fiction and literary fan.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2018
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    The stories are excellent and well worth reading.
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  • Richard Weems
    4.0 out of 5 stars E. Lily Yu - the highlight
    Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2018
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    For me, the highlight of this anthology was E. Lily Yu’s “The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight.” A fantasy of a young which who may have learned her spells well, but shows to be still naïve of the world when she decides to accompany a young night with whom she is enamored on his quest to kill dragons. While the plot may sound simplistic, Yu’s writing is sharp and original and the plot ultimately complex emotionally and progresses in ways you would not easily predict. As good fantasy is more about us than the world it imagines, Yu follows a woman who learns that knights are not always virtuous, love is complicated, and magic is more of a burden than an escape. This story is a true highlight of this collection. I want to see more!
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  • Kindle Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars I am probably just the wrong audience
    Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018
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    I love sci-fi and am trying to make sure I at least try to read a diverse array of authors, the writers do bring a range of perspective and styles alas for me the writing didn't peak an excitement for the future of curiosity of what ifs. This collection was a depressing slog that lit majors probably love. Honestly I am flip flopping on whether I should give this 3 stars or two, normally I burn through books out of sheer joy this took two months to slog through and I honestly can't think of a story I actually liked, the stories were technically well written and highlighted social issues, and maybe I am just not cool enough to get the writers styles. So for the moment 3 stars but I am unlikely to buy this editorial team's collection again
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  • Bonnie Brody
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the best science fiction and fantasy published in America
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018
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    It’s always a pleasure to read the annual collection of the best in American science fiction and fantasy. This one is no exception. Every year the new editor sets the direction and tone. Science fiction and fantasy should and often does push boundaries, upset expectations and take unusual paths. The otherness inherent in the genre is compounded here by the inclusion of new voices. Profoundly different cultures and modes of being are explored in this volume to a greater extent than usual. It was a particular pleasure to see a story included by Peter Beagle, one of the magisterial figures in fantasy among other newer and less familiar voices.
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  • Kevin
    2.0 out of 5 stars Too Much Fantasy and Too Little Science in this Collection
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018
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    Sorry, but far too much weird fantasy and not enough Science Fiction for me. There are a couple gems in the collection, but most of it is just not memorable reading.
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  • Condor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection from classics to current stories
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
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    I am not that much into sci-i, but my husband is a big fan. This book arrived just in time for him to take on a business trip. He really likes the stories, says in many cases it is nostalgia at its best since the book includes quite a few classics. Highly recommended for any sci-fi fan who likes to read.
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  • Michael and Julie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended: Edgy, genre-bending and/or offbeat but still in touch with the mainstream
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
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    I enjoyed the 2017 volume of John Joseph Adams' The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy), but I will not claim that it has something to please everybody. There's no space opera (though there are two stories that take place entirely in space, one of them a darkly humorous riff on choose-your-own-adventure pieces), no hard sci-fi (unless you count a near-future story about a full-immersion VR experiment gone awry, by Genevieve Valentine no less), and no high fantasy. On the other hand, Adams and guest editor Charles Yu have selected a good collection of short stories that are edgy, genre-bending, and/or offbeat, including there are three or four strong, serious pieces about new media/social media; two tense stories about alien migrants/refugees whose get less than warm welcomes to the 'burbs; two very different and wry takes on the Narnia-style door-into-another-reality trope; two reasonably fresh takes on supernatural teen outsiders; one funny-poignant Catherynne M. Valente piece on global warming; one gently wise piece of cultural appropriation by Peter S. Beagle; a barbed piece about aspiring Asian American writers in a time haunted by monsters, by Alice Sola Kim; a feminist parable about witches; and one darkly humorous (and meta) piece on the impossibility of being a black hero who does not get shot by the police.

    The three stories that made the biggest impressions on me were:

    * Debbie Urbanski's "When they came to us.": Hapless blue alien refugees arrive from somewhere or other. We don't like them much, and we're not even sure why not. Except for those of us who love, love, love them. Good things do not happen.

    * Catherynne M. Valente's "The future is blue." This has nothing to do with blue aliens and a lot to do with rising ocean waters. Tetley Abnego is not a big fan of the f**kwits who threw away the world, creating the floating island of garbage that she lives on, but she is also an incurable optimist who raves about the beauty and awesomeness of scraps of the past like mostly-dead AA batteries and ancient Twinkies. She has made an awful sacrifice for her people; was it worthwhile?

    * Joseph Allen Hill's "The Venus Effect" begins with "Apollo Allen and the Girl from Venus." Apollo (who we soon learn is black) meets the Girl from Venus at a party. She flies away. He gives chase ... and in his focus on the girl he fails to notice a policeman who yells at him to stop and draws his gun and before Apollo even recognizes what's happening the policeman has shot him three times = dead. Hill restart's Apollo's story multiple times, but can't seem to keep him alive. What gives?

    In any event, there are no true duds in this collection. If you're keeping up with current trends in sci-fi and fantasy, and you're not aligned with the "Sad Puppies" (don't ask), there's a good chance you'll find this collection stimulating and (at times) funny. Recommended.
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2019
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