[REVIEW] Wondrous Beginnings

[rfmcdonald]

Wondrous Beginnings, a short story collection edited Steven H. Silver and Martin H. Greenberg, is a very fun collection of the first published stories of such leading science fiction writers as Lois McMaster Bujold, Stephen Baxter, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, and L. Sprague de Camp. For its novelty value and the literary merit of many of the stories included in the collection, Wondrous Beginnings is worth acquiring. What makes it invaluable is the pairing of each story with a biographical text written by (or in the late Murray Leinster's case, about) the author explaining how the story came to be. Snap it up.