The Best New SF & Fantasy of the Year
L. Ron Hubbard; Kevin J. Anderson; S. M. Stirling; Lazarus Chernik; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Samuel Parr; Spencer Sekulin; L. H. Davis; Devon Bohm; Arthur H. Manners; David Hankins; David K. Henrickson; J. R. Johnson; Elaine Midcoh; Marianne Xenos; Jason Palmatier; and T. J. Knight
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Time Travel, Space Opera, Adventure
Date Published: May 2023
In the world of speculative fiction…
Your favorite authors…
Have chosen the best new voices of the year
Check out these twelve captivating tales selected by Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert J. Sawyer, Kevin J. Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye and others.
Join a team of time travelers who set out to save London from a terrorist’s nuclear attack … when a blast from the past changes everything.
Meet a vampire, a dragon and a shape-shifting Chihuahua in Key West … this is one beach party that’s about to get wild!
Follow Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., who’s investigating the craziest case of his so-called life.…
Find out what happens when death and taxes come together in the form of one IRS agent, who faces the darkest audit of all.
From dark fantasy to space opera and time travel, you will love these sci-fi and fantasy stories because, as Locus magazine puts it, “Not only is the writing excellent...it is also extremely varied. Hot new talent.”
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Short story collections are always tough to rate. I've never yet read a collection where I loved every single story; I've also never read one where I hated them all.In this collection, the ones I enjoyed definitely outweighed the ones I didn't.
Each story is paired with an illustration that pictures a moment in the story. The illustrations are amazing, bright and full of life and perfectly matched with their stories. These are definitely people to look out for in the future.
The stories run the gamut from kind of folktale-y to hard science fiction and beyond, and apart from one or two they are perfectly understandable on their own. A couple, I thought, were set in worlds so different from our own that the short story wasn't enough to explain them properly, so I didn't really follow what was going on. There's usually at least one like that in every collection, though!
Overall I really loved this; I highly recommend it, and I'll be looking out for others in the series. This has opened up a whole new avenue of reading for me!
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Thank you for sharing your review of L Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future Vol 39, this sounds like an awesome collection and I am looking forward to reading all of the stories
ReplyDeleteIt is a great collection! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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