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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I fin­ished read­ing Mas­ter­pieces: The Best Sci­ence Fic­tion of the 20th Cen­tury the other day. It’s a good, but not great col­lec­tion. I say that because each story in the col­lec­tion is a well writ­ten and enjoy­able; how­ever I real­ize now that I’m not par­tic­u­larly fond of short short­ies or at least, not a ran­dom col­lec­tion of short sto­ries which is what the over­all feel of this col­lec­tion is. There’s no under­ly­ing theme to the sto­ries that were selected and that really weaks the impact of each of the sto­ries. Still, it’s filled with good sto­ries by good authors; so I’ll give it 3 out of 5 points.

I’ve already started read­ing Eliz­a­beth Peter’s The Golden One. To be hon­est, I started read­ing it the other day and just for­got to update my blog; so I’ve nearly fin­ished it and I’m find­ing it to be highly enjoy­able though I’m some­what glad that it’s the last of Ms. Peter’s books that we have around the house. I like her char­ac­ters and her writ­ing style isn’t bad but I’ve just about had my fill of mys­ter­ies for now and I’ve got a bunch of used books from the last sale at our local library. That’s all for now; till next, happy page turning.

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