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The Human Front

I just finished Gardner Dozois' 19th annual Year's Best Science Fiction , and as good as most of it was, Ken MacLeod's "The Human Front" was by far the most spectacular.

It starts in 1963, with a death that everyone of the narrator's generation remembers clearly. No, not that one -- the death of "Uncle Joe" Stalin at the hands of American forces, hoping to finish off WWIII.

The world just gets more interesting from there, and then even more interesting. My only complaint is that I want more -- more backstory, more forestory, more of all of it.

It was published separately by PS Publishing, in a limited edition that's long-since sold out, and along wth Eric Brown's A Writer's Life in the UK , but I don't think those versions are any longer than the version in Dozois'.

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