 In one of my monthly roundup videos a while back I said that at some point I was going to do a special about these short story anthologies edited by David G. Hartwell. They're gigantic and I haven't gone around to them. The point I was making was that I liked his taste in stories for his anthologies and I always have. I was working on my July monthly roundup for tomorrow when I saw that Becky posted her July wrap up and she mentioned a large science fiction anthology that she didn't enjoy that she had trouble getting through and that gave me an excuse to talk about anthologies to recommend. Becky in this particular case I don't think it was the fact that the stories were all unrelated and there was such a variety on that that gave you so much trouble. I think it's the stories were bad. You're going for real traditional classic science fiction and that particular book you have there was edited by Gardner Dojois and that's not what he does. He emphasizes style over story and the the kind of classic authors that that you've been reading style doesn't come into their storytelling at all and I think that's the problem. I noticed it a few years ago when I was buying stacks of science fiction short story anthologies and I was noticing that every time I picked up a book that was edited by Gardner Dojois I immediately didn't like it. It was the stories. It's the stories that he was choosing and I think that's the particular problem here. I'm going to recommend some anthology editors that I think cover classic sci-fi really well. First of all I've covered these before the science fiction hall of fame from the 1970s. Each these are giant collections and they have real classics real reputable classics in them. Each volume was edited by a different author Arthur C Clark edited one of the volumes by the way. Also the annual world's best SF anthologies from the 1970s and 80s edited by David A. Walheim. This has I think the classic kind of stuff that you're looking for and I recommend them to anybody. Also from the 1970s the universe series edited by Terry Carr. I have volume three and volume 10 here. These are always good stuff. Terry Carr had great taste in classic science fiction. He would choose classics and also stuff you hadn't seen before. The analog best of science fiction series I have a large collected volume here. I believe this was a series of edited by Lester Del Rey. Lester Del Rey was a big name in science fiction publishing for decades and he has really great taste in classic sci-fi. So look for stuff edited by Lester Del Rey. As far as more modern stuff goes this was one of the first things that came to mind. It's a collection called Redshift from just a few years ago maybe 10 years ago. It's edited by Al Sarantonio is someone that I'm not familiar with but I remember thinking that this was a really unusual collection and it's modern stuff too. After I had bought it I was looking at a copy of it in the store once and a guy who worked at the store came up and said people really like this and I said I know I've read it is great. Now I'm going to come back around to David G. Hartwell. He's my favorite. Any time I see an anthology edited by David G. Hartwell I know it's going to be good. He has a series called Years Best SF that's been going on since the mid 90s. This is volume one and I've got looks like three six nine and fifteen here. David G. Hartwell has great taste that meshes very well with mine and I think it would mesh well with yours Becky seeing the kind of stuff that you like. My biggest problem with with this collection and usually most of these collections is they'll say Years Best SF and they'll say which numbered volume it is but they don't put the year on the cover. It's infuriating. Someday I will get to these giant collections. These are monsters but I will and I may review them individually. Until then see ya. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos I publish links and updates there every day.