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A review by spectacledbear
Space Opera by Cynthia McQuillan, Robin Wayne Bailey, Lyn McConchie, Peter S. Beagle, Jim Burns, Elisabeth Waters, Mary C. Pangborn, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Steven Brust, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint, Suzette Haden Elgin, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Alan Dean Foster, Margaret Ball, Paula Lalish, Anne McCaffrey, Leslie Fish, Warren C. Norwood, Jody Lynn Nye
3.0
Collection of fantasy/sci-fi short stories by a variety of authors including Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, all based around music or singing.
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First read in 2008; re-read in 2020. I don't remember specifically how I felt about it the first time round; the second time my primary feeling is, "Yeah, okay, that was fine." The stories all have music or singing as a theme, but the styles differ quite a lot, and range from fantasy to fairly hard sci-fi.
I've re-rated it down from four stars to three on re-reading, though I feel that some of the stories are definitely four- or five-star quality - I particularly enjoyed Calling Them Home by Jody Lynn Nye, whom I had heard of via her work with Anne McCaffrey, as well as Saskia by Charles de Lint and Thunderbird Road by Leslie Fish (neither of whom I'd read before).
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First read in 2008; re-read in 2020. I don't remember specifically how I felt about it the first time round; the second time my primary feeling is, "Yeah, okay, that was fine." The stories all have music or singing as a theme, but the styles differ quite a lot, and range from fantasy to fairly hard sci-fi.
I've re-rated it down from four stars to three on re-reading, though I feel that some of the stories are definitely four- or five-star quality - I particularly enjoyed Calling Them Home by Jody Lynn Nye, whom I had heard of via her work with Anne McCaffrey, as well as Saskia by Charles de Lint and Thunderbird Road by Leslie Fish (neither of whom I'd read before).