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A review by starfleeting
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 by John Joseph Adams, Diana Gabaldon
3.0
I'm not really into what could be called "hard" sci-fi - or the depressing, apocalyptic kind. Some people are into that and that's great for them. It's just never been my bag (I'm more into the hopeful, explorative kind, mixing with alien races, alternate universes, etc). I wish there was more actual fantasy here, some fantastical horror, too. It feels like the selections all lean too much towards one genre.
Thus, a lot of these didn't appeal to me, but two really stood out that I enjoyed more than I expected to.
"Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters" and "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt From Lucy Westenra's Diary)" are worth reading in this volume alone.
Trying to get into reading some shorter fiction (mostly because I have rarely done that) and this felt like a pretty decent start to that, even if a lot of the sci-fi bent didn't appeal to me.
Thus, a lot of these didn't appeal to me, but two really stood out that I enjoyed more than I expected to.
"Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters" and "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt From Lucy Westenra's Diary)" are worth reading in this volume alone.
Trying to get into reading some shorter fiction (mostly because I have rarely done that) and this felt like a pretty decent start to that, even if a lot of the sci-fi bent didn't appeal to me.