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Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction by Al Sarrantonio

jamieh2024's review against another edition

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4.0

Hardcover from www.bookcloseouts.com

This collection includes:

On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons
The Building by Ursula LeGuin
Froggies by Laura Whitton
What We Did That Summer by Kathy Koja and Barry Malzberg
A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club by Michael Moorcock
In Xanadu by Thomas M. Disch
Commencement by Joyce Carol Oates
Unique Vistors by James Patrick Kelly
Black Tulip by Harry Turtledove
Belief by P.D. Cacek
In the Un-Black by Stephen Baxter
Weeping Walls by Paul Di Filippo
Anomalies by Gregory Benford
Captive Kong by Kit Reed
Feedback by Robert E. Vardeman
Between Disappearances by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Resurrection by David Morrell
Cleopatra Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand
Burros Gone Bad by Peter Schneider
Pockets by Rudy Rucker and John Shirley
Ave de Passo by Catherine Asaro
Road Kill by Joe Haldeman
Ting-a-Ling by Jack Dann
'Bassador by Catherine Wells
Ssoroghod's People by Larry Niven
Two Shot by Michael Marshall Smith
Billy the Fetus by Al Sarrantonio
Viewpoint by Gene Wolfe
Fungi by Ardath Mayhar
Rhido Wars by Neal Barrett, Jr.

The ones in bold print were stories I particularly liked.

jch2022's review against another edition

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4.0

Hardcover from www.bookcloseouts.com

This collection includes:

On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons
The Building by Ursula LeGuin
Froggies by Laura Whitton
What We Did That Summer by Kathy Koja and Barry Malzberg
A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club by Michael Moorcock
In Xanadu by Thomas M. Disch
Commencement by Joyce Carol Oates
Unique Vistors by James Patrick Kelly
Black Tulip by Harry Turtledove
Belief by P.D. Cacek
In the Un-Black by Stephen Baxter
Weeping Walls by Paul Di Filippo
Anomalies by Gregory Benford
Captive Kong by Kit Reed
Feedback by Robert E. Vardeman
Between Disappearances by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Resurrection by David Morrell
Cleopatra Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand
Burros Gone Bad by Peter Schneider
Pockets by Rudy Rucker and John Shirley
Ave de Passo by Catherine Asaro
Road Kill by Joe Haldeman
Ting-a-Ling by Jack Dann
'Bassador by Catherine Wells
Ssoroghod's People by Larry Niven
Two Shot by Michael Marshall Smith
Billy the Fetus by Al Sarrantonio
Viewpoint by Gene Wolfe
Fungi by Ardath Mayhar
Rhido Wars by Neal Barrett, Jr.

The ones in bold print were stories I particularly liked.

cindywho's review against another edition

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2.0

This large book of short stories was subtitled "extreme visions of speculative fiction". For some reason I was hoping for Science Fiction, but got more fantasy and not much of it that extreme. Some of the stories were good, some were even interesting Science Fiction. I finally finished it after picking at it for a few months with an "eh." (August 30, 2005)
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