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Facets

(1990)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Awards
1991 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee)

Publisher's Weekly
Williams, best known as a writer of cyber-punk novels ( Hardwired ), branches out in this collection of nine well-crafted short pieces ''Video Star'' and ''Wolf Time'' are fast-action cyber-punk. ''Flatline'' and ''The Bob Dylan Solution'' edge into a new subgenre, bio-punk, more fully realized in ''Dinosaurs'' and ''Witness.'' The latter is the introductory story for George R. R. Martin's Wildcard series, but it stands well on its own.what is this a reference to?/mc .''Side Effect'' is also bio-punk, but is so depressingly contemporary and believable as to hardly qualify as science fiction. have restored cut phrase because it doesn;t make sense otherwise. sss The best story is ''No Spot of Ground,'' set in an alternate universe where Edgar Allan Poe is a general in the Confederate Army.


Genre: Science Fiction

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