The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Four

[spygrl1]

Edited by Jonathan Strahan, which immediately gave it a leg up on any of the collections edited by Gardner Dozois/Ellen Datlow (whose tastes and mine seem to diverge more than converge). Overall a worthwhile read, although much of the fantasy ("Three Twilight Tales" by Jo Walton, "A Wild and Wicked Youth" by Ellen Kushner, "Dragon's Teeth" by Alex

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[xiquatic]

"Star Trek: Voyager" had a nonsensical, worthless episode about dinosaurs on Earth evolving to the point where they had developed space travel. I wish science fiction authors would drop the idea of dinosaurs in space forever. The concept itself is nothing more than a mishmash of poorly scribbled kindergarten drawings and Tang-fueled Apollo 11 propaganda.