In a near-future Nigeria, a boy grows up to be a scientist. The story’s science fictional element is tenuous at best, concentrating mostly on the Nigerian’s family life. I really would expect to find something like this in a literary magazine. It’s not a bad story, but it’s not terribly remarkable, either.

Started reading this just after it came out, and I have finished it just after the next volume was released. Being able to read this in a e-version instead of carting around a massive tome helped, in that I could read stories every now & then on my lunch break, but it still took so long that I've forgotten which ones I particularly liked.
I love the longevity and dependability of this series and Dozois's excellent choices, but I can't remember the last time I actually read one from cover to cover (so to speak). Though come to think of it, I did skim one - that story and I had nothing to say to each other. Aside from that, finishing this leaves me feeling quite accomplished.

I really liked this collection. There are a lot of stories in it, none of them was weak or boring. I took my time reading them all with lots of breaks in between. Although I couldn't really get into 'Cody' by Pat Cadigan, no matter how hard I tried. Just not my kind of story I guess.

Some really great, standout stories that I loved from this edition:
-Ken McLeod's 'Earth Hour'
-Maureen McHugh's 'After the Apocalypse'
-Dave Hutchinson's 'The Incredible Exploding Man'
-Geoff Ryman's 'What We Found'
-Tobais S Buckell's 'A Militant Peace'
-Kij Johnson's 'The Man Who Bridged the Mist'
and -Tom Purdom's 'A response from EST17'

Lots of other enjoyable stories here as well.

Nope.

Quite possibly the worst anthology I've ever tried to read.

Some excellent stories. But I am in the mood for novels and series right now. I like reading the anthologies to find new authors to try, but I don't think there was a single author in this that I didn't already know.

Odustajem i od ove.
Stoji mi na polici već jako dugo.
Pročitala prvih pet priča i započela šestu i priče su mi dobre, ali je font toliko mali da su mi oči ispale. Ma neću se mučiti s njom.
Za pročitane je neka srednja ocjena 4 zvjezdice pa ću tako i označiti.
A baš šteta, rado bih ih sve pročitala.

Interesting premise, but didn't go anywhere.