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Donna Scott is a writer, poet, stand-up comic, and editor.
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	Best of British Science Fiction 2021 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Cornell (Goodreads Author), Liz Williams 3.97 avg rating — 111 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2020 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author), M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author), Lavie Tidhar 4.02 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2018 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alastair Reynolds (Contributor), Lavie Tidhar 4.01 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2016 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author), Gwyneth Jones 4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2017 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ken MacLeod, Lavie Tidhar 3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2019 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ken MacLeod, Lavie Tidhar 4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2022 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar, Eric Brown 3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2023 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laughs in Space by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar (contributor), David Gullen (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BSFA Awards 2008 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ted Chiang (Contributor), Greg Egan (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Goodbye 2025. You sounded so futuristic. Still not getting over the “Minnellium”, and even harder to believe they made brown the new black again. Goodbye PANTONE 17-1230. Hello again Dulux Shades of White (Cloud Dancer, Phlegm, whatever) as we go from 90s nostalgia to 80s. Ah, the great music, the mass unemployment, the threat of nuclear war, the grinding gears of far right politics across Europe,

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