The Best of Electric Velocipede
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Publisher Description
The Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede ran for twelve years, publishing twenty-seven issues over the course of its run. The magazine was nominated four years in a row for a World Fantasy Award. Its stories appeared in Gardner Dozois' and Jonathan Strahan's year's best anthologies and were also shortlisted for the Sturgeon and Tiptree Awards. The Best of Electric Velocipede showcases a breathtaking thirty-four pieces of high quality work published during its run. If you've never read the magazine, you're in for a treat. If you're already a fan, you'll find all your favorites and a lot of great writing that deserves a second look.
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Opening with Mark Rich's "Fling but a Stone," a pop of excellent, well-realized SF packaged as futuristic economic humor, this anthology of stories published in the offbeat zine Electric Velocipede is more eclectic than electric, running the scales from Alan DeNiro's grungy dystopia, "A Keeper," to Liz Williams's verbose historical, "Indicating the Awakening of Persons Buried Alive," which barely grazes the fantasy genre. Although many of the stories are fascinating or entertaining, the unstructured collection feels disarrayed, touching on poetry, fairy tales, the disgusting, and the just plain weird in a matter of pages. Some of the stories, like Ken Liu's "Cutting," are stunning in their simple elegance, but the powerful and beautiful ones lose their impact when the tone drastically shifts in the following piece, as when moving from Michael Constantine McConnell's mystical poem, "A Faun's Lament," to Damien Angelica Walters's lovely and haunting "Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods." Those who persevere or prefer to skip around rather than reading straight through will find plenty of gems worthy of individual consideration.
