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Aug 07, 2018
The title does not overstate- big, as in 1170 pages big! This probably is the ultimate collection. If you want to introduce somebody to SF, this would probably make the ideal christmas present. As 'scottwill' said, the translated stories are obscure (I think, people trying too hard to be original) but that's a quibble. I wish the editors had excerpted Solaris instead. But with this many stories most readers will find something to please. It's a fairly deft mix of classics and new tales. Ken Liu's story of alien books, and Robert Anton Wilson's "Cartesian Theatre" would have been nice. But overall, one of the best anthologies in years.