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thriftygeek's review against another edition
4.0
This book contain some really good stories, and one in particular that disturbed me. This collection show's Lackey's range.
kittenscribble's review against another edition
3.0
Fantasy / SF, short stories. Witty and entertaining. Contains several fun bits that become the genesis for later, longer works. I was kind of annoyed by the telepathic cat stories (and I love cats!) but overall the stories are pretty adorable.
serena_dawn's review against another edition
3.0
You know what struck me most strongly when I read this anthology of Mercedes Lackey?
It was the short stories of Skitty.
She's never written a real science fiction book on her own, nothing that takes place in space, on another planet - no, it's mostly fantasy; in fact, I think the SKitty short stories are all that I've ever seen out of her.
I've been a reader of hers since high school; a reader, while not a fan, but usually eager enough. I find that while she does a lot of info-dumping that is not necessarily correct (or necessary), she's written about a dozen books I really, really love. That hope is what keeps me going back to reading her works.
It's strange to me to think that way, she wrote books with C. J. Cherryl and Andre Norton and Marian Zimmer Bradley - Anne McCaffrey and Piers Anthony...yet...nothing really set in science fiction, hard or otherwise.
Still, all these short stories were nice to read, some for the first time, though most of the Gray stories became "Wizard of London".
It was the short stories of Skitty.
She's never written a real science fiction book on her own, nothing that takes place in space, on another planet - no, it's mostly fantasy; in fact, I think the SKitty short stories are all that I've ever seen out of her.
I've been a reader of hers since high school; a reader, while not a fan, but usually eager enough. I find that while she does a lot of info-dumping that is not necessarily correct (or necessary), she's written about a dozen books I really, really love. That hope is what keeps me going back to reading her works.
It's strange to me to think that way, she wrote books with C. J. Cherryl and Andre Norton and Marian Zimmer Bradley - Anne McCaffrey and Piers Anthony...yet...nothing really set in science fiction, hard or otherwise.
Still, all these short stories were nice to read, some for the first time, though most of the Gray stories became "Wizard of London".
xeni's review against another edition
5.0
This is a really strange mix of sci fi & fantasy short stories! There are some really fun ones in here, and others where you just scratch your head and say "what was that?"
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