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Review title: An Oldtimer's lament
Product review: From the late 1940s through the 1970s and early '80s I was a frequent reader of science fiction - hard science, soft science, whatever classification Philip K. Dick can be placed in, and the sort of fantasy-with-gestures-toward-science that Silverberg wrote in his prime. The James Tiptree stories I read and loved were pretty much in that Silverberg vein, with a hard-nosed toughness at or near the surface, or somewhat more science based but just as strong.I hadn't realized that the author's style had matured in this direction. "Brightness Falls From The Air" is soft fantasy. It may be 'better written' than her work from the Good Old Days, but I don't like it.I recently picked up an anthology of "the best science fiction of 2003", and didn't find a 'real' SF story in the bunch, or even a story that was well written. So... the problem is mine, folks. My tastes are too far out of date to be relevant.
