Review: Led me to discover some hidden gems
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
I like science fiction and fantasy from the classic era, which to me is the 1950s, and 1960s.  (I'm not saying nothing good was written before or since, just that I like a higher proportion of stuff from that era.)  I thought I had read everything by my favorite authors, but when this was offered as a free Kindle book I snapped it up because I thought I'd find something from authors I didn't know.Yes, some of the listings were from authors new to me.  But, much to my surprise, there were several stories I had never read, from authors like Robert Sheckley, Frederik Pohl, R.A. Lafferty, and Keith Laumer.  (There were also some old favorites, but I already have those in print.)Some reviewers have commented that this cook contains nothing that we couldn't fund for ourselves.  I suppose that's true, and I admit that Rosenthal's comments a few and generally lightweight.  But to do the searches myself would have taken a lot of time, and there's always the problem of unconsciously limiting one's search and therefore missing something you might actually like. This book saves a lot of effort in searching, it introduced me to things I didn't know existed, and the included links made it easy to investigate each book that sounded interesting.  I am grateful to Rosenthal for what he did.