Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities


Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Mary Rosenblum. It was released in 1996 and was the author's first collection of stories. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,515 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Contents

Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities contains the following stories:
  • "Water Bringer"
  • "Entrada"
  • "The Centaur Garden"
  • "Second Chance"
  • "Bordertown"
  • "Synthesis"
  • "Flood Tide"
  • "The Rain Stone"
  • "Stairway"

Reception

Gideon Kibblewhite reviewed Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities for Arcane magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall, and stated that "Eerie, melancholy and convincing, it's hard to say exactly when this collection of short stories is set, but it's sometime near. Too near. But if more science fiction was written in this way, maybe we wouldn't be sliding towards this sad world that Rosenblum so beautifully describes."

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