The New Hugo Winners IV (New Hugo Winners)

Most of the stories here were first published in Asimov's science fiction magazine. Thus, regular subscribers to that will find little new in this collection.

The first, "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey Landis is traditional SF involving an astronaut stranded on the Moon. I felt that this could have been written thirty or forty years earlier and, after the first four pages, it was simple to see how the rest of the story would progress.

Only one writer, Connie Willis, featured twice and her two short stories were, for me at least, the weakest in the collection.

While none of them stands out as being exceptionally good, the longer works do manage to redeem the collection. The first novelette, "Gold" by Asimov is not particularly memorable but the other two, "The Nutcracker Coup" and "Georgia on my Mind" together with the three novellas, "Beggars in Spain", "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" and "Down in the Bottomlands" tip the balance.

All five of these were interesting stories in settings ranging from contemporary Earth through space adventure to alien worlds and races. TNC and BiS also had something interesting to say beyond their narrative.

In summary then, a readable book which is worth the price of admission but there are better collections around.

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