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fishsauce's review against another edition
4.0
Most of the pieces were well-chosen, but the book has two major problems. First, the pieces are presented ahistorically, which is to say none of the original publication data is provided, including the date; essays from last year rub shoulders with essays from the 1920s with no indication of how they are in conversation with each other or what their original context might have been. Second, the copy editing was extremely shoddy; several of the essays appear to have been OCR'd from their original sources and there are an embarrassing number of typos that seem to stem from things like word shape.
nicholasbobbitt1997's review
1.0
I tend to despise academic analyses of SF because much of the time they feel uninformed. This is yet another case.
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