YAY! My STARS book arrived!

[SFBill]

Original Stories based on the songs of Janis Ian!

How did I ever miss this book??? A member of my Carly Yahoo Group mentioned finding this and I was amazed it existed! I can't wait to delve into it.

How many here have read it?

from the front cover

"Stars are suppose to entertain; here they live up to expectations." --Booklist

from the backcover..

Publisher's Weekly--
This dazzlingly, highly original anthology...seems to vibrate with death throes of one world passing away, while far stranger ones struggle to be born.

Stars is a truly unique undertaking, and an intensely personal one as well. It was born at the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia, when Mike Resnick began introducing Janis Ian to many of the writers whose work she adored for decades.
When Janis discovered that these writers were as enamoured of her music as she was of their writing, what could be more exciting a creative venture than to meld these two universes into one?

"For me, science fiction is the jazz of prose." Janis Ian

[Sara]

[quote=SFBill]Original Stories based on the songs of Janis Ian!

How did I ever miss this book??? A member of my Carly Yahoo Group mentioned finding this and I was amazed it existed! I can't wait to delve into it.

How many here have read it?

Bill, I recently purchased this book and it looks really promising! I expect to enjoy it a lot; just haven't made the time to read anything offline, lately (with the exception, of course, of Janis's autobiography which I inhaled all at once). I'll let you know what I think after I've read it.

[Bat]

Most of the stories I have read...I have to be in a special mood to read short stories, and it doesn't happen too often, so although I've had the book for a couple of years, I'm still not completely through it...I can read a novel in 5-8 hours, enjoying every word, so, no, I'm not a slow reader, just a moody one.

[hoops]

I think it is a great book, Janis contributes to it also. it is a lot of fun to read knowing it is based on Janis songs and if you're new to sci fi, it is a great intro by what i've heard to be some of the very best writers among them. it is a joy.
peace
hoops