Fast Forward 2

When "Fast Forward 1" debuted in February 2007, it marked the first major all-original, all-SF anthology series to appear in some time Chr(45) and it was met with a huge outpouring of excitement and approbation from the science fiction community. No less than seven stories from "Fast Forward 1" were chosen to be reprinted a total of nine times in the four major 'Best of the Year' retrospective anthologies, a wonderful testament to the quality of contributions in our inaugural book.What's more, "Fast Forward 1" was hailed repeatedly as leading the charge in a return of original, unthemed anthologies series (several more have since appeared in our wake). Now the critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking series continues, featuring all new stories from: Paul Cornell; Kay Kenyon; Chris Nakashima-Brown; Nancy Kress; Jack Skillingstead; Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum; Jack McDevitt; Paul McAuley; Mike Resnick and Pat Cadigan; Ian McDonald; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Karl Schroeder and Tobias S Buckell; Jeff Carlson; and Paolo Bacigalupi.

ISBN 159102692X   Pages 360 ISBN13 9781591026921 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Prometheus Books   Weight (grammes) 472 Imprint Prometheus Books   Published in Amherst Format Paperback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 01 Oct 2008   Width (mm) 150 Library of Congress 2008031620   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 813.0876608   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

"this is a fine anthology-one of several in what's shaping up to be a remarkable year for original anthologies." -Gardnerspace column, Locus, December 2008, Issue 575, Vol. 61, No. 6 --- "This collection may be all about fast forwarding, but with material this strong, it's worth hitting slow mo and zoom, Over the course of its one Introduction, two epigraphs and fourteen stories, Fast Forward 2 proves itself a rare beast among anthologies of the imagination: one whose content actually provides a materialization of its own theoretical blueprint". -Strange Horizons, November 28, 2008 Fast Forward 2 is the second volume in Lou Anders' excellent science fiction anthology... While all stories herein are at least excellent, there were a couple of absolute knockouts... Paolo Bacigalupe's The Gambler should be required reading at every school of journalism in the world, exploring as it does the question of click-driven news and coming up with genuinely novel and sometimes disturbing things to say about it." --BoingBoing.net, posted by Cory Doctorow, December 2, 2008 "What I hope will be abundantly plain is how strong I found the selection as a whole. It's been suggested to me as a rule of thumb that genuinely enjoying half the stories in an anthology is to be considered a sign of good TOC. If that's the case then one of three things is true: either I'm too easily pleased, or my tastes coincide very closely with Lou Anders, or Fast Forward 2 is an excellent anthology. There's not a single story I actively dislike, and even those I'm lukewarm to have obvious merits." --Futurismic, December 3, 2008 "Looking for some fresh science fiction? The Fast Forward series of anthologies, published by Pyr, prides itself on featuring original stories from science-fiction heavyweights. I love Gardner Dozois' annual The Year's Best Science Fiction collections, but sometimes its great to get something really new, and Fast Forward doesn't disappoint. The latest installment, Fast Forward 2. [is] a great collection, with a good mix of stories ranging from hard science fiction to near magic realism. Stand outs for me included True Names, a novella by [Cory] Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum set in a post-post-post-human universe, and An Eligible Boy, written by Ian McDonald, that takes place in the mid-21st century India that McDonald has used as the backdrop for his 2004 book River of Gods." --Discover Magazine Science Not Fiction blog, October 14, 2008 "First of all, this is a beautiful book. The cover, by John Picacio, is stunning. Within the book, FF2 , like FF1, uses play, pause, and, of course, fast forward icons similar to those on your nearest remote control at line breaks and at the beginning and end of stories in an inspired bit of design. This is a fantastic anthology that I look forward to rereading. I sincerely hope that Fast Forward becomes an annual anthology; the first two volumes are incredibly strong." --Little Bits of Everything, Rene Sears Live Journal, October 17, 2008 "The great Gardner Dozois tagged this as the best sf anthology of 2008, and I'm not gonna argue with him. Great stories here by Paul Cornell, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McDonald, Jack Skillingstead, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Cory Doctorow, and many more. It's a special antho, a must-read, and the kind of book that sf readers remember when the awards season rolls around." --John Picacio, replying to SFSignal Mind Meld question, What were the best genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008?, December 10, 2008 "Along comes Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders' new anthology of original SF stories, to demonstrate that the cutting edge of the genre is still relevant, and better written than ever before, even as it leaves some of its more fantastical staples -- time travel, aliens, etc. -- behind. The collection follows on the success of 2007's Fast Forward 1, which impressed critics both within and outside the genre. In this second volume, the future just kee

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