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Title: Men Writing Science Fiction As Women by Mike Resnick ISBN: 0-7564-0165-8 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a bad anthology
Comment: This novel appealed to me, partly because I wanted to see how men would write from a woman's position, but mostly because I was in the mood to read good science fiction short stories. As stories go they're not bad, although I did expect more.
There's a wide variety of stories in this book. The first one opens up with a woman who's lover wants to have a child, but lacks a uterus due to an in-body espresso machine. On the other end of the spectrum you have Phil, who's undergone a procedure to become Phillpa, and his mental state isn't that great. You have a story about Marie, the computer AI for a building, and how she came into being. There's a young girls coming of age kind of story mixed in with a archeological dig, and a fairy's first days as a living creature.
Several of the stories center around motherhood: a woman who finds herself pregnant obtains an illegal gene bomb to force a doctor into making her child smart, another is about a young woman who agrees to become a breeder for an alien race that came down and conquered humans. A third has a mother searching for the daughter that was taken from her 12 years before, and another deals with mind travel, where a woman's unborn child mind travels back in time to ensure they are concieved.
Overall there's a pretty wide variety of stories in this anthology, and there's bound to be something for everyone. Generally the female characters are pretty beleivable, with few exceptions you don't pause mid story and wonder who is writing the story. There are a few oddball stories that leave you wondering, or stories that seem to have parts of them rushed, as if the author became tired of the story and wanted to wrap it up as quickly as possible.
If you're a fan of science fiction and women characters, this is worth checking out. You're bound to find something you'll like in the 20 stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: male writers switch from pants to skirts perspective
Comment: Popular male writers provide engaging new tales in this anthology and successfully do so from a female perspective. The concept is intriguing, but obviously gimmicky too. The tales are well written entries that cross (no pun intended the gamut of sub-genre lines. Each one provides a first person account starring a female protagonist (in some cases antagonist might be a more apropos term). However, the fun in this nineteen tale anthology is not the gender switching, but in observing how males see females. Mike Resnick summarizes the tales best in his introduction to this collection when he quotes from his novel Outpost: "What's the most dangerous race you ever came across? Women! I mean an alien race. So do I." Readers will have a fine time seeing favorite writers switch from pants to skirts in an entertaining compilation.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Women Writing Science Fiction As Men by Mike Resnick ISBN: 0756401488 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: New Voices in Science Fiction by Mike Resnick ISBN: 0756401682 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Microcosms by Gregory Benford ISBN: 0756401712 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (Daw Book Collectors, No. 1265) by Janis Ian, Daw Books, Mike Resnick ISBN: 0756401771 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Future Crimes by Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois ISBN: 0441011187 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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