SFRevu Reviews Shine Anthology
Filed under Reviews • 01-04-2010 •
Liz de Jager reviews the Shine anthology on SFRevu:
Tags: Aliette de Bodard • Gareth L Powell • jetse de vries • Shine Anthology • Solaris BooksI looked first at The Church of Accelerated Redemption a collaboration between Gareth L Powell and Aliette de Bodard and found myself immediately sucked into their wonderfully intimate story of a computer engineer’s struggle with loneliness and discontent. I like Aliette’s writing having read parts of her novel Servant of the Underworld, yet in this story I found something altogether different – a main character whose search for meaning in a dead end job unexpectedly takes a turn she could not have predicted. Wonderful and full of promise, I liked her attitude and the fact that although she was pretty scared, she wasn’t too scared to grab a new future for herself.
Barnes and Noble call the anthology “historic”
http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Explorations-The-BN-SciFi-and/The-Future-s-So-Bright-I-Gotta-Wear-Shades-Optimistic-Science/ba-p/504197
Catherine Hughes reviews the book here:
http://readingwhilstwriting.blogspot.com/2010/04/shine-edited-by-jetse-de-vries.html