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Summary: Essential reading for WJW fans
Review: This nice collection features "Prayers on the Wind", WJW's best story to date,and lots more Good Stuff. As always, NESFA books are a pleasure to read & hold: smooth, creamy paper, solid, full-cloth bindings and exceptional cover & interior art, here by Omar Rayyan. Recommended. Comments on some stories:Broadway Johnny: a "deeply unserious" story of magic and mayhem in 1930s China. "A-" The Bad Twin (never before published). A rousing time-travel tale with "as many paradoxes as I could devise" -- "A". Prayers on the Wind (Nebula Award nominee): A+ -- featuring the Big Library, Buddhism & Bad aliens -- not to be missed. The author's afterwords are interesting and entertaining. Forex, here's WJW on a panel, discussing virtual surgery in graphic detail: "I became aware that the audience was staring at me in horror. I looked to my left, and saw Vernor Vinge scribbling in his notebook. I looked to my right, and there was Bruce Sterling likewise taking notes.... I better write this story [Erogenoscape] *fast*, I said to myself."
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Summary: Essential reading for WJW fans
Review: This nice collection features "Prayers on the Wind", WJW's best story to date,and lots more Good Stuff. As always, NESFA books are a pleasure to read & hold: smooth, creamy paper, solid, full-cloth bindings and exceptional cover & interior art, here by Omar Rayyan. Recommended. Comments on some stories: Broadway Johnny: a "deeply unserious" story of magic and mayhem in 1930s China. "A-" The Bad Twin (never before published). A rousing time-travel tale with "as many paradoxes as I could devise" -- "A". Prayers on the Wind (Nebula Award nominee): A+ -- featuring the Big Library, Buddhism & Bad aliens -- not to be missed. The author's afterwords are interesting and entertaining. Forex, here's WJW on a panel, discussing virtual surgery in graphic detail: "I became aware that the audience was staring at me in horror. I looked to my left, and saw Vernor Vinge scribbling in his notebook. I looked to my right, and there was Bruce Sterling likewise taking notes.... I better write this story [Erogenoscape] *fast*, I said to myself."
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