Subterfuge
£24.49
The Best of British! - I just finished the antho and... wow, what an excellent and varied collection of speculative fiction. One of my pet peeves with anthos is you sometimes get the feeling the editor accepted a story because the author s name will sell copies. I didn t get that vibe at all with Subterfuge. Every story stood on its own merits. Of course, some of the tales impressed me more than others. My faves were Dave Hutchinson s Multitude , a story set in an Elf-dominated Britain and Gary Couzen s beautifully nostalgic Jubilee Summer -- I ll never look at a redhead the same way again! Nods of respect also to Una McCormack, Juliet McKenna, Neal Asher and Tony Ballantyne for their wonderful stories.To put this review into some sort of perspective, I read The Best of Interzone collection a couple of years back and was very impressed. Most of the stories in Subterfuge are easily on a par with those in the Interzone collection, Subterfuge really is that good. It s a gorgeous looking book too, doncha think? I need to check out what other collections this editor and publisher have put out. I feel slightly dismayed that they ve slipped under my radar till now.