A review by wychwoodnz
2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology by Michael Hodges, Micah Joel, Lauren Liebowitz, Grant Stone, Anatoly Belilkovsky, Thoraiya Dyer, Adam Christopher, D. Thomas Minton, Krystal Claxton, Martin L. Shoemaker, David Carani, Alex Shvartsman, Marina J. Lostetter, T.C. McCarthy, Michael Haynes, John Chu, Ronald D. Ferguson, Bernie Mojzes, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Mur Lafferty, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Nicole M. Taylor, Anaea Lay, Sarah Pinsker, Alex Kane, Nick Tchan, M. David Blake, Lee Hallison, Robert Lowell Russell, Bruce Bethke, Zen Cho, Peter Sursi, Trina Marie Phillips, Robert Dawson, Kenneth S. Kao, Andrew Penn Romine, Wakefield Mahon, Amy Sundberg, Seth Frost, Rich Matrunick, Cory Skerry, Van Aaron Hughes, Damien Angelica Walters, Grayson Bray Morris

4.0

This is a great idea for an anthology and I'm glad so many of the potential candidates for this year's award were able to participate. What an enormous book this would have been if all had done so! Authors whose stories I particularly liked were David Carani, Thoraiya Dyer, Sarah Frost, Damien Walters Grintalis, Grayson Bray Morris, Cory Skerry, and of course Mur Lafferty (the story Random Fire from Van Allen Hughes also stands out but I won't comment further - spoilers, sweetie!), but there's a LOT to choose from, my favourites list should really be three times that length. Lots of images from these stories have stuck in my head since reading them.

It's only available for a short time so grab it now (it's free!) if you read fantasy or science fiction.