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_Fine Structure_, Sam Hughes, at http://qntm.org/files/structure/
_Tides From the New Worlds_, Tobias Buckell
Tides is a single-author anthology. It appears that I like Mr. Buckell's novels much more than I like his short stories -- my reactions ranged from "that's potentially cool" to "why?". Nearly all of them seem to take place in or near the ocean's shore, even on other planets.
I liked _Fine Structure_ an awful lot. It has a TV Tropes page and was originally started, I believe, on Everything2. The fragment-and-scene technique that John Brunner used in _Jagged Orbit_, _Stand on Zanzibar_, _The Shockwave Rider_ and so on is used to extraordinarily good effect, with individual entries ranging up to the length of long short stories and skipping around in time sequence. The book is a whole greater than its parts, detailing an entire cosmology through the viewpoints of a predominantly human cast. Greg Bear might be jealous. Everything is wonderfully interconnected, with clues liberally scattered yet not always obvious. I stayed awake late to finish this, and was happy that I did.
_Tides From the New Worlds_, Tobias Buckell
Tides is a single-author anthology. It appears that I like Mr. Buckell's novels much more than I like his short stories -- my reactions ranged from "that's potentially cool" to "why?". Nearly all of them seem to take place in or near the ocean's shore, even on other planets.
I liked _Fine Structure_ an awful lot. It has a TV Tropes page and was originally started, I believe, on Everything2. The fragment-and-scene technique that John Brunner used in _Jagged Orbit_, _Stand on Zanzibar_, _The Shockwave Rider_ and so on is used to extraordinarily good effect, with individual entries ranging up to the length of long short stories and skipping around in time sequence. The book is a whole greater than its parts, detailing an entire cosmology through the viewpoints of a predominantly human cast. Greg Bear might be jealous. Everything is wonderfully interconnected, with clues liberally scattered yet not always obvious. I stayed awake late to finish this, and was happy that I did.
