Review: Not my most favourite collection!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2013
As I have said in other reviews, I really enjoy reading collections of literature, either the complete works of so and so, or like The Science Fiction Megapack, a compilation of short stories by authors that I have little experience with.  I find that by reading books like this one I become interested in some obscure author and then I go looking for more of his / her work.  With the megapack books I started with the Third volume first.  I enjoyed it greatly and was introduced to authors like H. Beam Piper for the first time.  It made me want to read more so I downloaded this book.  To be honest, this book made me want to stop reading.  It was depressing with many of the stories focused on the end of life on Earth and it was tedious.  The worst story in the book was the short novel "The Monsters of Moyen".  This story was so bad and the sci/fi was unbelievable.  I realize that this was written in 1930 but the story was set in 1935.  The world was nowhere close to developing some of the technology postulated in the story.  I found myself skimming through the story after a while because it was just so repetative and boring.  I just hated it.  There were some good stories in the book.  THE JUDAS VALLEY, by Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett and the THE LITTLE BLACK BAG, by C.M. Kornbluth were two of them.  However, overall I disliked the book and the theme that it seemed to project.  I do not recommend this book to anyone, especially those suffering from depression.  Be warned!