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New Voices In Science Fiction Mass Market Paperback – December 2, 2003

by Mike Resnick (Author)
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A collection of virtually all-original stories by the next generation of science fiction superstars-chosen by one of its current stars.

Includes stories by Kage Baker, Janis Ian, Julie E. Czerneda, Susan Matthews, Shane Tourtelotte, Cory Doctorow, Kay Kenyon, and others.
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    352 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    DAW
  4. Publication date
    December 2, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    4.24 x 0.96 x 6.68 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0756401682
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0756401689
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Editor Resnick's latest winning anthology showcases rising stars. Only one contribution has been previously published: David D. Levine's "Nucleon," about a junkyard in which there is, quite literally, everything. Janis Ian, most familiar as a 1960s singer-songwriter, is represented by "Chicken Brain," a bizarre, clever little piece. David Barr Kirtley's collection opener, "The Black Bird," offers a new and nasty look at the demise of a familiar detective, while the closer, Adrienne Gormley's "Custer's Angel," a slightly different time-travel exercise, shows a student researching the last moments of General Custer's life and coming to some very disturbing conclusions. Other notable entries include Michael Burstein's "Lifeblood," an interesting take on vampires, and Lisa Mantchev's "1-800-Wicked," a witty fairy-tale villain's diatribe. Regina Schroeder
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DAW (December 2, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0756401682
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0756401689
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.24 x 0.96 x 6.68 inches
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  1. Michael D. Resnick

    Michael D. Resnick

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    Mike Resnick is the author of numerous science fiction novels and short stories, including Dragon America, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Amulet of Power, Mutiny, Return to Santiago, and Santiago. He is the editor of This Is My Funniest and has won five Hugo Awards and the Nebula Award. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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    David Barr Kirtley

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    David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he's interviewed over 400 guests, including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins, Simon Pegg, Bill Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Lightspeed, and Intergalactic Medicine Show, on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod, and in books such as The Living Dead, New Cthulhu, The Way of the Wizard, and The Dragon Done It. His story "Save Me Plz" was picked by editor Rich Horton for the 2008 edition of the anthology series Fantasy: The Best of the Year. His book Save Me Plz and Other Stories collects 20 of his best stories, along with 13 illustrations and more than 40 pages of author's notes explaining how the stories came to be written and published. He lives in Austin with his cat Oryx and his wife Steph Grossman.

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  • Rochelle Weber, Roses & Thorns Reviews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Collection of Short Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016
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    NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION is a collection of short stories, edited by Mike Resnick. Two stories stand out for me in particular. The first is "Chicken Brain," written by Janis Ian. Yes, the same person who wrote the hit song, "At Seventeen." She's a tiny, grandmotherly folk-singer who, as it turns out, loves sci-fi, and while I wouldn't exactly call "Chicken Brain" sci-fi, it was a great story. A tourist on a Caribbean island goes for a walk and meets an island girl who offers to guide him "home." As they're walking (forever, it seems), she tells him about her family and her Mama Ya-Ya's big pot for cooking chickens. The entire story is told from the girl's point of view, and in her vernacular. It's brilliant!

    My other favorite story is "The Faithful," about a pair of priestesses trying to tend their temple when their goddess disappears with a god and his priest takes over. The twist at the end is hilarious.
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  • David
    2.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight, clever, trivial stories
    Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2004
    I found these stories mostly disappointing. I would have tossed the book away halfway through, but it was the only available reading matter during a boring wait, so I persevered. My perseverance was not rewarded.
    Most of these stories are just achingly clever in conception - what I gather the film world calls "high concept" - but they are emotionally empty, or intellectually empty, or sometimes both. They are mostly the kind of clockwork stories that a bright student in a creative writing class will produce when under deadline pressure - as I know from personal experience having written several of the kind myself. Gotta get something on paper, anything... and finally an opening sentence or an image comes to mind, and you push it as far as you can, using verbal and narrative tricks to hide the fact that you haven't a clue in heck as to how this situation could ever arise, nor what to do with it now it has arisen.
    For an example I will cite what is undoubtedly the best of the stories in the book, David Levine's "Nucleon," which also won a prize and appears in Hartwell's Best of the Year. A conceptual artist discovers a wonderful scrap yard run by an amazingly cute & insightful old-timer. The yard always seems to produce exactly the object the artist needs; it even turns out to contain a highly rare and reminiscent object from the narrator's childhood - helping him, possibly, reconcile to his childhood. Or not, it's all quite fuzzy. Then the lovable old-timer dies and wills the scrap yard to the artist, who suddenly finds he has acquired the amazing talent to lead others to exactly what they need to find the yard.
    See what I mean about "high-concept"? There are lots of clever turns; the artist's creations have evocative titles that make us laugh and there are fun bits of trivia about old artifacts. When it's over, though, and you sit back and think about it, the story is about nothing at all. It's cotton-candy fiction, hermetically closed off from any real emotion or character development; no resonance with any human's real concerns; forgettable.
    And that's the best of the lot. Second best would be "Flowers from Alice" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. It has some of the bite of good SF; at several points you find yourself nodding in surprise, thinking, oh! yes!, that's possible, that's how it could be! But the final twist, one, caused me to lose sympathy with the character (his troubles are all of his own making), and two, made me realize how John Varley had rung all the same bells much more melodically.
    The rest might look good in the creative writing prof's in-basket, but wouldn't (I hope and trust) make it past the slush pile of a decent magazine. In sum, don't spend money here unless you have a LOT of time between flights at DFW.
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  • Steven Woodcock
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Collection
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2017
    A solid collection of some twenty stories, these run the gamut from science fiction to fantasy to "something or other". The collection seems to be weighted towards fantasy rather than science fiction but it's a close call I thought.

    I probably enjoyed around 70% of these enough to read them all the way through, which is positive. Some were awesome (one involving the never-produced Nucleon nuclear-powered car) and some seemed rather strange but enjoyable (such as Nine Fingered Maria). I did skip a few but that's typical for a collection of this size; they can't all be hits.

    I enjoyed this collection...it's worth your time.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful short story collection
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2003
    As in sports, as the greats of the arts age and die, patrons wonder who will step to the plate as the next generation's superstars. Culling recommendations of his peers and award winners and nominees, long time science fiction all star Mike Resnick has put together such a collection. The anthology consists of those writers whom he believes have a strong probability of being considered the top rung genre authors if his daughter Laura Resnick ever put together a golden oldie retrospective collection twenty years from now of the first five years of the new century. Note nepotism was not allowed.
    NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION is a delightful short story collection comprised of twenty enjoyable stories that run the genre gamut. Each contribution is well written and entertaining, showcasing talent to grip the audience. It is difficult to determine whether any of the writers will have the mantle of greatness bestowed on them, generalists will understand Mr. Resnick's selections based on these terrific tales (don't bet the future on it as the editor expects no more than half to make that legendary level of excellence). Still each author shows talent that if continued could include that individual as one of the greats (rarest is To Kill a Mocking bird one shot coronations). After reading this book, place it in a plastic box along with whom you predict including adding new names as to the expected top ten labeled to open in 2025; the accuracy you will find is higher than one will expect.
    Harriet Klausner
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  • Martin Lucas Moore
    2.0 out of 5 stars More fantasy than science fiction
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2012
    As another reviewer wrote, with little exception these are not stories with depth. Furthermore, science fiction is in the minority in this collection. If you like lightweight fantasy that's easy to read, then go ahead and spend a buck. If you're looking for real science fiction, search elsewhere.
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