Morning Child and Other Stories

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Summary: Brilliance...in handy book format.
Review: Morning Child and Other Stories by Gardner Dozois arrived in the mail today and all I can think to say is, "Buy this book," even though I know that that is a very shallow and feeble thing to say of a work of art such as this. It is very much a retrospective collection, looking back over the thirty-plus years of Gardner Dozois as an author, stretching back all the way to 1970 ("A Dream at Noonday"), through 1984 ("Morning Child"), through 2002 and 2003 ("The Hanging Curve," "Fairy Tale"). Gardner Dozois is an author I very much admire; there are few whose skill with the written word I admire more.

It contains some of the very best SF you can find, like "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," and "A Special Kind of Morning." It's got both of his Nebula Award-winning stories, "The Peacemaker" and "Morning Child." And yet, when all is said and done, and with the constant demands and pressures of the book market, I realize that my words have failed me at a time when I need them most, and all I can think to say is, "Buy this book."