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sfsite.com - 6/16/2009

Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders

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The introduction starts out strong citing what he sees as science fiction's four purposes: its predictive capability, its preventative possibility, its ability to inspire the future, and being "the literature of the open mind," which "acknowledges change and encourages thinking outside the box." ...

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fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 6/11/2009

The PKD Award Nominees, Part 5 - Fast Forward, Vol. 2, ed. by Lou Anders (Reviewed by Fábio ...

— fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com — Fast Forward 2 is an above average anthology. So far, it has collected a fair share of rave reviews -- and nominations: some of its stories, like Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow´s True Names and Paolo Bacigalupi´s The Gambler , were ... (more) The PKD Award Nominees, Part 5 - Fast Forward, Vol. 2, ...

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High Praise for Fast Forward 1 and 2
Bowing to the Future — From Derek Johnson's SF Site review. I am somewhat speechless: In 2007 Lou Anders edited Fast Forward 1,one of the strongest original anthologies that science fiction has seen -- so strong, in fact, that after one closed the book one wondered if Anders would be able to match both the quality and the ambition of that volume in his next. After all, the anthology's very title indicated that Anders wanted to actually incorporate the Campbellian vision into a genre that, for all of its rhetoric about being a literature of the ...