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An Excellent New Anthology Not Just for Hoosiers,
October 12, 2011 Joanna Pary - See all my reviews
This review is from: Indiana Science Fiction Anthology 2011 (Paperback)
There's something special about places to which we have an attachment: where we grew up, where we went to college, etc. We know the sights, the sounds, the smells; we know the atmosphere, and to share this with others is to share the delight of a commonality: an attachment not just with the place, but with the people with whom you share the place. So Hoosiers will definitely want to grab a copy of Indy Sci-Fi, because it's their home within the pages and it's their people spinning the yarns.
But make no mistake, these aren't good old home-town tales of happy childhoods: they're creepy, intellectual, and fantastical stories that take us to real locations, and then step outside of these into new realities. The anthology is about speculation and possibility, and how these elements clash with our own reality.
But even if you've never been to Indiana, the anthology is most certainly still worth a read. It's not written by Hoosiers for other insiders who know every...Read more
Wide variety of interesting tales,
December 19, 2011 Lisa Davidson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indiana Science Fiction Anthology 2011 (Paperback)
I know I had fun with this because so many of the writers used real places that I was at least moderately familiarly with, after traveling the state so many years. But the stories stood on their own, and my favorite thing, while it didn't apply to all of them, was how deliciously creepy so many of them were!
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