Book Review: Starlight 3

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Starlight 3     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Class/Genre:   Science Fiction   [Short Stories]
Tor, Jul 2001, $24.95, 350 pp.

STARLIGHT 1 and 2 were some of the best short story collections assembled in any genre. The probability of 3 holding the bar at the level of its predecessors seemed remote because quality rarely reaches that stratosphere. Yet STARLIGHT 3 accomplishes the impossible and more as readers receive sixteen weird yet extremely creative tales that run the speculative fiction gamut with angels behaving more like Ancient Greek Gods in many of the contributions. All of the stories are quite powerful and no one should be surprised when individual authors and editor Hayden add a trophy or two to their mantelpiece. Two words sum up the absurd greatness of this fabulous collection: Senator Bilbo.

Harriet Klausner

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