Friday Fiction: Escape Velocity: The Anthology (Review)

I'm a fan of the short story form

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Apologies for my absence recently, I have been so busy standing as a potential politician! Things will go back to normal after the UK election on 4th July, I hope.

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Escape Velocity: The Anthology by Geoff Nelder

Escape Velocity was a science fiction magazine from Adventure Books of Seattle. This collection brings together many of the best short stories from the magazine, as well as others specially submitted for this collection by authors from around the world.

This was certainly a good value collection as it contained forty-eight scifi stories, which lasted a good while. There is a mix of styles, moods (some serious, some humorous), quality, viewpoints, and themes. As such it is difficult to summarise the overall collection, and easier to give examples of the stories I enjoyed most (in the order in which they appear), along with a quote that I liked from each story. I’ll state why I liked each story, but not give away anything that might count as spoilers.