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Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings by Harlan Ellison, John Sladek, Raylyn Moore, Michael Moorcock, Kate Wilhelm, George Alec Effinger, Malcolm Braly, Charles Naylor, Kit Reed, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Marilyn Hacker, Peter Schjeldahl, Norman Rush, Carol Emshwiller, Thomas M. Disch, Dick Gallup

pattricejones's review

5.0

I found it sometimes eerie to read these science fiction stories, some of them prescient, from the early 1970s. The incipient eco-awareness, which even then felt urgent to some of the writers in this anthology, is particularly (should I say tragically?) touching after 40 more years of not-enough people listening.

But mostly I am writing this review to say that the two tales by Geoff Alec Effinger that collectively go by the title of Two Sadnesses very well may be the saddest things I've ever read.

For that alone, 5 stars.