I truly enjoyed all of the stories in The Taste of Different Dimensions. Alan Dean Foster is a brilliant storyteller. This book was provided to me in exchange for my honest opinion, and I can tell you it was wonderful!

Most of the anthologies I've been reading in recent years have been multiple author collections on a theme, but this one is a compilation of short stories all written by a well-established Fantasy writer, Alan Dean Foster. Needless to say, the quality is consistent and of the highest caliber.

I don't know what else I can say about this one. I loved every story. The excellence easily earns the designation of Master Storyteller on the description. If you like traditional Fantasy, read this. You won't regret it. Full of brilliant ideas, great characterization and unexpected plot twists well done.

The first story is an utterly forgettable piece about genies and the classic three wishes gone slightly wrong.
The second story is about dreams, what is real, how do our dreams affect our reality, how do I tell the difference... also nothing exciting.
Halfway through the third story I decided that this isn‘t doing much for me. So, DNF at 22%.
I am also not happy how women are portrayed. It feels a bit dated. Actually, the entirety of what I read felt dated, which is par for the course for a 70-year old author, I guess... And a bit like the author spooled off something by rote. Not sure why he bothered.

I received this free e-copy from the publisher/author via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review, thank you!

Strange and unusual tales that are well written. Not my usual stories I read, but I enjoyed them all the same.

It is a honor to review a book from Alan Dean Foster. Alan is the genius behind Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek and more iconic works from modern sciences fiction culture. He is the ghostwriter and creator of amazing universes. His narrative is smooth and silky. The reader is quickly submerged inside his mysterious words and worlds. Sublime!

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This wasn't for me as it seemed to have a lot of stories that I couldn't get drawn into.

Sorry but while I love the concept I was thinking it needed to have more stories that were stronger.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to stumble on an author you've never read before and find a really high quality of writing. His collection is terrific. Each story is so well-crafted that you know you are in the hands of a master storyteller. These are fifteen brief flights of fantasy, strangeness, and haunting horror from ghosts to dreams to frogs to living castles to outsmarting a genie in a bottle to wandering around endless hotel corridors. But, it really doesn't matter what the subject is, these are just good stories. Highly recommended.

The Taste of Different Dimensions by Alan Dean Foster, a fun read. A book of short stories from a master of the genre comes tales of the fantastical and weird. Foster almost always gives a good read and these certainly qualify.

I download collections by Kevin Anderson and Alan Dean Foster at the same time from NetGalley and I am going to write a single review because I have the same reaction to each. These are both big-name science fiction authors with dozens of novels and hundreds of stories to their names. Both are bestselling, and I've checked out a couple novels by each without being hooked on either. When these collections came up I wanted to see if they were better at short stories but I can tell you now, they aren't. Clearly I am outside their usual demographic but that's OK. At least I tried them.

If you like Anderson or Foster now, you will no doubt like these collections. If you like Neal Stephenson, Iain Banks, M. John Harrison, Gene Wolfe, Philip K. Dick, or R.A. Lafferty like I do, you probably won't.