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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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August 10, 2016
Companionship Examined Via SF Short Stories Or
The "Human Side" of SF
A Review of
Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn Soulmates [A Collection of
Short Stories] (Arc Manor, 2016)
$14.99 210 pp ISBN: 978-1-61242-314-2
[Advance Reading Copy]
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
I believe that Robert J.
Sawyer (author of Rollback and many other award-winning SF gems) is
probably right in stating that Soulmates "will be remembered as one
of the major collections of this decade". This is an interesting
achievement because these short stories bear comparison with the
"human interest", "human side of the news" kind of stories
often found at the end of the evening TV and radio news programs, which
are mostly filled with reports of wars and crimes and terrorism, just as so
much of science fiction consists of distopias and violence, and one of the
most popular SF film series, Star Wars, has the very word
"wars" in its title! Soulmate and the Arc
Manor "Stellar Guild" series are good example of
the "human side" of SF not only in their stories
but in the help given by established SF authors to SF
neophytes. It should not be supposed, though, that this is
unusual because during the fifteen years in which I attended Dragon Con
and other Atlanta area SF conventions, I witnessed numerous examples
of aspiring SF writers receiving help from some of our nation's best SF
authors. Info on this and other SF books by the publisher, you can visit
these websites: www.soulmates.space and www.arcmanor.com
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