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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6203506" data-attributes="member: 70">Read Faceless Killers, by Henning Mankell, so I could remember if I wanted to get more of his books.&nbsp; I think I shall. I really disliked The Man from Bejing, but the Wallander books are better. I wonder if anyone ever dies in Scandinavia during the summer? I also read most of the stories in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, Vol. 3.&nbsp; This is a weird book (and probably a weird series).&nbsp; It's almost like a Lin Carter vanity project.&nbsp; Maybe it is.&nbsp; He edited it, wrote one story, &quot;co-wrote&quot; another from fragments of a story left by Clark Ashton Smith, and there are at least two or three stories which &quot;have never been published before&quot;.&nbsp; So it's not a &quot;Year's Best&quot; as we might expect today, with the best stories that were printed in Year X; it's the best stories (maybe) that Lin Carter had around.That said, some of them were quite good.&nbsp; It was very interesting to read and see how the tone of fantasy has changed since 1978.Working on The Years Best Science Fiction Vol. 21.&nbsp; I love &quot;Year's Best&quot; books, particularly anything edited by Gardner Dozois.&nbsp; Top-notch stories spanning the full range of the SF genre. It's interesting to read the older ones because occasionally I'll run across a story I've read before (usually in Best of the Best, Dozois' culling from 25 years of Years Best), such as &quot;Ej-Es&quot;, by Nancy Kress, which is sad and haunting and not your usual super-science story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6203506, member: 70"] Read [I]Faceless Killers[/I], by Henning Mankell, so I could remember if I wanted to get more of his books. I think I shall. I really disliked [I]The Man from Bejing[/I], but the Wallander books are better. I wonder if anyone ever dies in Scandinavia during the summer? I also read most of the stories in [I]The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, Vol. 3[/I]. This is a weird book (and probably a weird series). It's almost like a Lin Carter vanity project. Maybe it is. He edited it, wrote one story, "co-wrote" another from fragments of a story left by Clark Ashton Smith, and there are at least two or three stories which "have never been published before". So it's not a "Year's Best" as we might expect today, with the best stories that were printed in Year X; it's the best stories (maybe) that Lin Carter had around. That said, some of them were quite good. It was very interesting to read and see how the tone of fantasy has changed since 1978. Working on [I]The Years Best Science Fiction Vol. 21[/I]. I love "Year's Best" books, particularly anything edited by Gardner Dozois. Top-notch stories spanning the full range of the SF genre. It's interesting to read the older ones because occasionally I'll run across a story I've read before (usually in [I]Best of the Best[/I], Dozois' culling from 25 years of Years Best), such as "Ej-Es", by Nancy Kress, which is sad and haunting and not your usual super-science story. [/QUOTE]

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