Karen Burnham gives The Starry Rift a very good review at Strange Horizons, singling out Kelly Link and Greg Egan’s stories for particular comment. The introduction faired less well, but I hate writing those things, so that’s okay. It is interesting to see how much various reviewers response to the book is colored by how they imagine readers younger than they are will react to the book.

Greg L.  Johnson gives The Starry Rift a good review at SF Site.  He says:

Another way The Starry Rift connects to science fiction’s past is in its size and variety of stories. The Starry Rift is just the kind of big collection that you used to find tucked away on the shelves of the local library, with each story a door into another universe of imagination and wonder. With any luck, that’s just the kind of experience that The Starry Rift will provide for the young readers of today.

The editors of Vector take a look at The Starry Rift over at Torque Control, discussing Kelly Link’s “The Surfer” in detail.

Karen Burnham over at SFRevu gives The Starry Rift a terrific review, making particular mention of Kelly Link’s “The Surfer” and Greg Egan’s “Lost Continent”.

Kelly Link was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on the East Coast. She attended Columbia University in New York and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She sold her first story, “Water Off a Black Dog’s Back,” just before attending Clarion in 1995. Her later stories have won or been nominated for the James Tiptree Jr., World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards.

Link’s stories have been collected in Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. She has edited the anthology Trampoline, co-edits The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror with husband Gavin J. Grant and Ellen Datlow, and co-edits the ‘zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet with Grant.  Her next book, Pretty Monsters, is a collection for younger readers.