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A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula AwardÂ-winning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth.Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetimeÂ-theyÂ're going to Mars.Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angelÂ-an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars:We were here first. ... Read more

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The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Avid readers of science fiction have long appreciated the myriad joys of returning to fictional galaxies already experienced; delighting in the ever-unfolding mysteres of Frank Herbert's Dune or Asimov's Foundation series, for example.

In Far Horizons--edited by acclaimed author Robert Silverberg-- a veritable "Who's Who" of science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers once again revisit the remarkable worlds they created and made famous.

Ursula K. Le Guin sends representatives of the Ekumen into the violent later years of a planetary civil war. Dan Simmons once again billiantlymixes allegory and space adventure in his dangerous, religion-dominated cosmos of Hyperion. Greg Bear reexplores his artificial universe, "The Way", from Eon, Eternity and Legacy.

Orson Scott Card recounts the momentous first meeting of his time-and-planet-hopping protagonist Ender Wiggin with Ender's computer based, soon to be companion, Jane.Gregory Benford rockets us back to the Galactic Center, Anne McCaffrey's Ship Who Sang sings again, and Joe Haldeman's Forever War rages on eternally. Here, also, are new stories by David Brin, Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Silverberg himself--each venturing further into univestigated corners of familiar galaxies to delve into the perilous mystery of being human.

Perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction talent ever in one volume, Far Horizons is an unprecedented masterpiece -- one that reopens vast empires of imagination and adventure to new explorations and appreciations. It is a major SF event, sure to bring unparalleled joy to the hearts of serious fans everywhere.Amazon.com Review
Far Horizons is the science fiction equivalent ofRobert Silverberg's bestselling fantasy anthology Legends. For bothbooks, Silverberg invited some of the most renowned authors in thefield to write a new story based on their most popular series orsettings. For instance, the first story in Far Horizons isUrsula K. Le Guin's "Old Music and the Slave Women," which takes placein the same Hainish universe as her famous novels The Left Hand ofDarkness and The Dispossessed. DanSimmons wrote a piece set in the realm of Hyperion, AnneMcCaffrey turned in a Helva story from the world of The Ship Who Sang,and so on.

Like Legends, the list of writers in FarHorizons reads like a Who's Who of the genre: Le Guin, JoeHaldeman, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Simmons, Nancy Kress, FrederikPohl, Gregory Benford, McCaffrey and Greg Bear, as well as Silverberghimself. And like Legends, the authors take a page or two tointroduce their stories so that newcomers won't be totally lost. Theaverage story in Far Horizons is, as you might expect, asignificant cut above the average SF story, although this anthology isnot quite as successful as its predecessor. Authors like Le Guin andSimmons have come up with some first-rate stuff, but Card andMcCaffrey have produced stories that are mediocre at best. Overall,though, the book has far more ups than downs, and serious readerswon't want to miss this one. Those new to the world of SF will alsofind Far Horizons an invaluable reference when they're lookingfor good authors to read. --Craig E. Engler ... Read more

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Uneven
I agree with the other reviewers- very uneven.
My summary for what its worth:

Old Music and the Slave Women- 3.5 of 5.Well written but not particularly compelling.
A Separate War- 3 of 5.Mildly amusing but that's it.I didn't particularly like the book either.Writing and themes seemed dated and juvenile.
Investment Counselor- 3 of 5.Ender books were better- this one is only mildly amusing.
Temptation- 3 of 5.0.Series was in general better.Nothing special.
Getting to know the Dragon- 2.5 of 5.Nothing special.Don't know the series.
The Hyperion Cantos- 3 of 5.Series much better.
Sleeping Dogs- 4 of 5.Very well done, very well written.Have not read the series- but will now.
The Boy Who Would Live Forever- 2 of 5.Juvenile writing and not a very compelling story.Never read the series.
The Hunger for the Infinite- 4.5 of 5.Not sure why but I really liked this.I only read the first two books in the series and found them exasperating- the writing and themes alternately impressive and mediocre.The short story format eliminated the uneven writing I found in his books.
The Ship That Returned- 2 of 5.Painful. I wish the ship would stay away.
The Way of All Ghosts- 4.5 of 5.Another one that I liked.Creative and bizarre.I will have to read the series.

Bottom line, I seemed to like the gloomy stories the most.However, since the stories are varied in style and themes I believe most people will find at least a couple of stories they liked.

Not Free SF Reader
A decent collection of stories from previously written about universes.How much you ike them will be somewhat related to how you like the originals, if you have come across them before.The story average is 3.41.

Far Horizons : Old Music and the Slave Women [Ekumen] - Ursula K. Le Guin
Far Horizons : A Separate War [Forever War] - Joe Haldeman
Far Horizons : Investment Counselor [Ender Wiggin] - Orson Scott Card
Far Horizons : Temptation [Uplift] - David Brin
Far Horizons : Getting to Know the Dragon [Roma Eterna] - Robert Silverberg
Far Horizons : Orphans of the Helix [Hyperion Cantos] - Dan Simmons
Far Horizons : Sleeping Dogs [Sleepless] - Nancy Kress
Far Horizons : The Boy Who Would Live Forever [Heechee (Robinette Broadhead)] - Frederik Pohl
Far Horizons : A Hunger for the Infinite [Galactic Center] - Gregory Benford
Far Horizons : The Ship That Returned [Helva] - Anne McCaffrey
Far Horizons : The Way of All Ghosts: A Myth from Thistledown [Way] - Greg Bear


Race war communications.

3 out of 5


War waiting, bi the way.

4 out of 5


AI accountants are cool.

4 out of 5


Dolphin escape and magic time diaspora subservience scheme rejection.

3.5 out of 5


Imperial travel brutality.

3 out of 5


Hyperion kid and Shrike buddy pay a visit for some teleporting fun.

3.5 out of 5


Dog dreaming denial dangerous.

4 out of 5


Gateway ship, black hole timeslip.

3.5 out of 5


Collecting horror.

3 out of 5


Prosthetic palsy.

3 out of 5


Had enough.

3 out of 5

A bore!
The ambitious plans Silverberg works out in the introduction turn out to become a real bore. Most stories are sedatives rather than stories, above all Silverberg's own contribution. It is not so much that I miss action, but if there are contemplative passages they have to be interesting and discuss themes of interest and relevance. Good science fiction always has to mirror reality and its problems in a way, and doing so it must not just play with a given subject, but has to involve the reader and take sides. And of course, stories need real plots - and some action after all. But telling most of these stories Scherazade would have been killed right after the first night.
There are some exceptions, though. Ursula Le Guin's yarn is quite good, but we have seen better stories from her. The same is true for Frederik Pohl's story. Dan Simmons wrote an acceptable tale, but those three are not worth laboring through 577 long and slow pages.

Only a couple winners here
Robert Silverberg returns with a new anthology, similar in form to 1998'swell-received Legends. While the previous book featured eleven stories bywell-known fantasy writers, working in their famous "worlds",this volume features eleven stories by well-known science fiction writers,again working in their famous "worlds".

I have some mildmisgivings about the concept behind these books, really just a personalthing. I tend to think that we do well to encourage writers to branch outin new directions, to invent new universes. A book like this guaranteesthat the writers will be rehashing somewhat familiar territory. I also liketo see anthologies feature a mix of established talent and new writers:partly because I'm interested in seeing what new voices have to say, andpartly because I think it helps new writers to have venues in which topublish their work which will be promoted, as it were, by the presence ofbig names alongside them. But I emphasize that these are quibbles, and thatdespite all that a book like this is an attractive package, and that mostof the series involved have plenty of room for interest furtherexplorations.

That said, I was mildly disappointed by the final results.Most of the stories are pretty good, but not a one of them quite bowled meover, though the Simmons and Le Guin pieces came close. Dan Simmons' entry,"Orphans of the Helix", is set in the universe of his HyperionCantos.Some centuries following the events of that series, a"spinship" carrying frozen colonists looking for a new world tosettle detects a distress signal.A few of them are wakened, and they dealwith a desperate problem involving an ancient colony of "Ousters"(space adapted humans) and some unusual aliens.The plot is not theinteresting part of this story: Simmons is having fun with a passel of big,"Space Opera", ideas.Simmons' reputation is as a somewhat"literary" writer, and I think this obscures his impressive Sfnalimagination at times.This story considers Ringworld-sized forests, somevery odd humans indeed, some interesting political speculation, aliensliving inside a sun, a really big, really scary spaceship, and several moresense-of-wonder inducing ideas.Le Guin's story, on the other hand, ismuch quieter in tone.It's another story set on Werel, the setting of hercollection of linked novellas, Four Ways to Forgiveness."Old Musicand the Slave Women", like the previous Werel stories, treats of therevolution against the long-established slave-owning societies on Werel. The protagonist, called Old Music, is a Hainish diplomat, that is arepresentative of the interstellar organization called the Ekumen.As warrages, the Ekumen has been prevented from gaining information aboutconditions on Werel, and Old Music jumps at a chance to speak to therebels.But he is betrayed, and ends up at a compound of slaveholdingloyalists.As the war rages back and forth across this area, he learns atfirst hand a great deal about this culture.It's a fine story, and it fitsin very well with the other stories in its series, so much so that Iwouldn't be surprised to see Le Guin reissue her collection including thisstory: Five Ways to Forgiveness, anyone?

Many of the other stories areenjoyable but minor: in the nature of things they tend to be sidelights tothe existing series of which they are parts.There are two outrightstinkers, Orson Scott Card's wish-fulfillment story "InvestmentCounselor" about how Ender meets Jane (the latter character one of myleast favorite characters ever), and Anne McCaffrey's awful "The ShipThat Returned".

for SF devoted fans only
the book is a collection of stories by known SF writer, which are based onsequels series of books written by this writers. the collection is goodmostly for people who are notfamiliar or didn't have the power to readthis sequels, and would like to taste some of the writing. it also intendedto the fanatic SF readers whow will read every thing about their sequelseries.

the stories were not so apealimg to me, since i haven't read mostof this books, and the impression i got is that i didn't missed most ofthem.

anyway, it look likes a lot of effort was put in this book by theeditor SILVEBERG, and his fellow writers, but the outcome is a litledissapointing. ... Read more

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An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls "one of the nest prophetic writers of our times" once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination--transporting the reader across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness.

From the spinetingling account of an intergalactic poacher's rite of passage, to an erotic and ultimately uplifting modern fable of inner scars and otherworldly transformation, here are fifteen remarkable tales and "story poems"--featuring four HUGO and NEBULA Award-winners, including the classic novella THE HEMINGWAY HOAX. These are stories that sing with a unique and haunting voice--stories of war's monsters, of brutal art and lost stars. . .and a brief, miraculous moment called childhood, when a young girl can actually fly.Amazon.com Review
"In action, a writer looks pretty much like a clerk." So Joe Haldeman writes in the introduction to this collection. But Haldeman, like Einstein, proves that clerks can have enough vision to rock the cosmos. This book includes 11 stories and four story poems, ranging in length from two pages to just over 100. Together they have earned two Nebula, two Hugo and one World Fantasy awards. Each one showcases the author's grasp of what it means to be alive and human (or inhuman), written with a powerful clarity and a subtle imagination. Publishers Weekly called this one "a stunner." ... Read more

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Not bad.
The storie's were good with the exception of the Vietnam war referance in most of the storie's. 1 or 2 would have been alright,but not most of them.

Haldeman writes like SF like a poet
Joe Haldeman is probably the best active living writer of science fiction. He also writes much more like a poet than other SF writers.He never usestoo many words, and never too few.He write to get a point across, andsucceeds much of the time.Of course, because of this, when he fails hemisses the mark by a wide margin.

His novels "The ForeverWar" and "The Hemingway Hoax" are two of the best SF novelsof the last half century.

Of course, after reading NONE SO BLIND, youfind that Haldeman does write poetry.The collection is more shortstories, but the poems in this are very good.My personal favorite of hispoems here is "The Homecoming", which many in SF can very muchrelate too.

But the short story "None So Blind", from whichthe collection takes it title, is here.And that is a great short story. "The Hemingway Hoax" is also included here, as is"Graves".I am of a younger generation than Haldeman, and youwould think a short story set, more or less, in Vietnam wouldn't connectwith me.But for some reason, it still gives me the willies.

Haldemanis somebody all intelligent people should be reading.This collection ofshort works is some of his best stuff.

Intriguing tales that GRIP the imagination
I don't usually turn to short stories for a good read, but I was completely fascinated and satisfied by this collection of 11 tales and 4 story poems.

Haldeman's unbounded imagination has yielded a variety ofmost curious beings and circumstances, augmented by many of his personalexperiences that sparked or helped to form these vignettes.

I appreciatedthe biographical insights that he provided in his introduction and in thebrief addenda that follow each piece.

Some short, some quite long, buteach one a thought provoker with haunting images that will continue to pullat you after you believed that you'd laid this one down.

Read this book.
Haldeman is quickly becoming one of my favorite science fiction authors.This collection of short stories will make you want to burn a sick-day just to be able to stay home and finish it.

I feel I can forgive him forwriting Forever Peace now.:)

Haldeman has the nack for describing a lotwith very few words; something I wish more authors would do.

great stuff
I wish I could give it 9 out of 10.This is a wonderful collection of short stories, a novella, and poems.The novella, "The Hemmingway Hoax" is quite confusing, but the remaining short stories make up forit, especially the first two.Haldeman can present a very vivid pictureusing few words, an ability that many authors lack.Also, I don't getaround to reading many poems these days, but the ones contained here arevery enjoyable.Read this book! ... Read more

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Dissapointing

This book arrived in my hands with much advance praise and high recommendations. It did not live up to its press. Joe Haldeman, who wished to become a power in the genre of Science-Fiction,wanted to write a book in the style of, and after that famous worthy Robert A. Heinlien. Unfortunately Haldeman had neither the skill nor the gifts that Heinlien did.

This book, The Forever War, like Heinlein's Starship Troopers or Orphanage by Robert Buettner, is set in a fictional future when earth is at war with an unknown alien species. It deals with issues such as conscription, political unrest, and a human race devastated by the effects of an interplanetary war.

In this book soldiers are all conscripted from the intelligentsia, to lead mankind in space war against unknown forces. Our Hero, if we can call him a hero, is Private William Mandella.But in the future, soldiers are psychologically conditioned to kill in a frenzy, and to be dependent upon drugs. Unlike both Buettner's and Heinlien's books that have drugs as a detriment to military life, Haldeman uses drugs for everything from recreation to encouraged addictions.

This book, though the winner of many awards including the Nebula and Hugo, is not worth your time and effort. One of the possible reasons for this is that the book has gone through four different major revisions. It was rejected by eighteen publishers before finally being published in 1974 with some major editing. It was not believed that as a book about the `Vietnam War', the forever war would have a large market. But a publisher took a chance and published it. Then The Forever War went on and won a few awards.

Since then, the author has revised it through two major revisions. The first put a section back in that messed up the timeline of the story, and the second returned it to the original unedited version, known as the definitive edition of the book. It is the only version currently in print.

The writing is poor, and this unedited - so-called restored version of the book - is lackluster at best and downright boring!The story drags at many points and, at other times, so little story is given that it seems to jump from scene to scene without filling you in on how our characters got where they are.

This book in some version may have won the top two science fiction novel of the year awards, but it is really not worth the effort. Read either Heinlien's or Buettner's version of the story. Both are much more satisfying and enjoyable.

(First Published in Imprint 2006-09-01 as `Hate It' part of the `Love It/Hate It' book review column.)
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This issue includes: Power Complex by Joe Haldeman; conclusion of Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg; Changing Woman by W. Macfarlane; True School of Modesty by Ernest Taves; The Years by Robert F. Young; The Soul Music of Duckworth's Dibs by Larry Eisenberg; Medical Practices Among the Immortals by Kris Neville. ... Read more