Lightspeed: Year One

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  1. Paperback: 480 pages: 1 item
  2. Publisher: Prime Books; 2011-11-22
  3. Author: Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Anne McCaffrey, Nancy Kress
  4. ISBN: 1607013045
  5. Sales Rank in Books: #211408

Product Review

Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between. Each month, Lightspeed features a mix of originals and reprints, from a variety of authors - from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven''t heard of yet. Now, in Lightspeed: Year One, you will find all of the fiction published in Lightspeed''s first year, from new stories such as Nebula Award finalists, Vylar Kaftan''s "I''m Alive, I Love You, I''ll See You in Reno" and "Arvies" by Adam-Troy Castro, and Carrie Vaughn''s Hugo Award-nominee "Amaryllis," to classic reprints by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and more.

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Average Customer Review
4.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Very dark, in general, February 19, 2012
Icabod Brothers (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lightspeed: Year One (Paperback)
The writing cannot be denied as excellent throughout this collection of stories. However, the majority of the stories are exceedingly dark. Not the right read if you're looking to be uplifted about stories of the future.

Again, very well written and engaging stories, just a bit depressing in overall tone.


7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The problem with Anthologies... but a good one., January 14, 2012
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This review is from: Lightspeed: Year One (Paperback)
The problem with anthologies - especially ones that combine stories from different time periods - is that the quality of the total works will vary. The first story was quite bad and left me with a feeling of 'uh-oh, what did I just spend my money on', most stories are average, but some (old and new) are real gems and well worth the purchase.

All in all, a good buy for traveling and short jaunts. But not something you could sit down for a long read over.


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of literature for the buck!, April 13, 2012
Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lightspeed: Year One (Paperback)
Lightspeed Magazine is a science fiction and fantasy e-zine that specializes in carrying only the best. Among the participating authors are such big names as Orson Scott Car, Stephen King and Ursula Le Guin, just to name a few! This anthology collects all of the stories from the first year of Lightspeed, containing some 48 stories...if I counted correctly.

As you might expect with an anthology of stories by different authors, they run the gamut from the so-so to the fantastic - though admittedly, a good deal of that is taste. Personally, I loved David Barr Kirtley's Cats In Victory, Genevieve Valentine's The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball, and Stephen King's Beach World. Probably the best part of a book like this is that it can introduce you to authors whose work you have never encountered before, or reintroduce you to authors you thought you knew.

I really enjoyed this nice, thick book, and I don't hesitate to recommend it. It's a lot of...Read more

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