Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
 Dust-jacket illustration by Bob Eggleton. | |
| Author | Mary Rosenblum |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Elizabeth Lawhead Bourne |
| Cover artist | Bob Eggleton |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| OCLC | 33360809 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3568.O793 S96 1996 |
Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Mary Rosenblum. It was released in 1996 and was the author's first collection of stories. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,515 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
Contents
[edit | edit source]Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities contains the following stories:
- "Water Bringer"
- "Entrada"
- "The Centaur Garden"
- "Second Chance"
- "Bordertown"
- "Synthesis"
- "Flood Tide"
- "The Rain Stone"
- "Stairway"
Reception
[edit | edit source]Gideon Kibblewhite reviewed Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities for Arcane magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall, and stated that "Eerie, melancholy and convincing, it's hard to say exactly when this collection of short stories is set, but it's sometime near. Too near. But if more science fiction was written in this way, maybe we wouldn't be sliding towards this sad world that Rosenblum so beautifully describes."[1]
Reviews
[edit | edit source]- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #426 July 1996[2]
- Review by Charles de Lint (1996) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1996
- Review by Paul J. McAuley (1996) in Interzone, October 1996
- Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1996) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1996
- Review by Peter Heck (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1997
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (1997) in Science Fiction Chronicle, April/May 1997
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1997
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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