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%T The New Hugo Winners
%E Isaac Asimov
%I Baen
%D August 1991
%O paperback, US$4.50
%P 319
%G ISBN 0-671-72081-3
Nine fine works -- the winners in the short story, novelette and
novella category --- for the years 1983, 1984 and 1985. High points
include Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants, the short original
version of Greg Bear's Blood Music, and David Brin's
The Crystal Spheres. Strongly recommended!
%T Man-Kzin Wars IV
%A Donald Kingsbury
%A Greg Bear
%A S. M. Stirling
%I Baen
%D August 1991
%O paperback, US$4.95
%P 311
%G ISBN 0-671-72079
Two more tales of Niven's favorite felinoids. Donald Kingsbury's The
Survivor is a weird reverse-English on Dean Ing's
Cathouse; this time it's a stranded Kzin who finds himself
attracted to a human woman. Kingsbury manages to lend the hoary old
lecherous-BEM theme a horrifying new plausibility, because our villain is a
bioengineer who can put the lady through some real changes. The
Stirling/Bear collaboration, dissapointingly slight, tells the tale of a human
who became Kzin --- thus laying the marketing psychology of this
series bare for all to see. Neither is up to the remarkably high standard set
by Ing in Cathouse. Better luck next time.
%T Bloodstone
%A Karl Edward Wagner
%I Baen
%D August 1991
%O paperback, US$4.50
%P 308
%G ISBN 0-671-72082-1
This reprint from 1975 is one of those books that will really wow you
if you like the weird central character; otherwise it's likely to seem
just a trite piece of generic sword and sorcery, cover by Frazetta.
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