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The Secret History of Fantasy
| Author: | Peter S. Beagle |
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Tachyon Publications, 2010 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Fantasy is more than just sword-and-sorcery novels of epic adventures. Here are innovative tales where mythology, fairy tales, and archetypes are reimagined into a new style of storytelling.
Anthologist Peter S. Beagle knows fantasy. The author of the inventive fantasy novel The Last Unicorn and the introduction to The Lord of the Rings now introduces the gifted writers that returned to the classics and thoroughly redefined the genre: Gregory Maguire, Francesca Lia Block, Robert Holdstock, Patricia McKillip, and Steven Millhauser, and others who have lead the way to expanding imaginative frontiers.
From the depths of a dangerous English forest to the top of the Tower of Babel, on a caffeinated journey to the empire of ice cream, discover The Secret History of Fantasy.
Contents:
- Ancestor Money - (2003) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
- Scarecrow - (2001) - short story by Gregory Maguire
- Lady of the Skulls - (1993) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
- We are Norsemen - (1977) - short story by T. C. Boyle
- The Barnum Museum - (1990) - short story by Steven Millhauser
- Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - short story by Terry Bisson
- Bones - (2000) - short story by Francesca Lia Block
- Snow, Glass, Apples - (1995) - short story by Neil Gaiman
- Fruit and Words - (2001) - short story by Aimee Bender
- The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- The Edge of the World - (1989) - short story by Michael Swanwick
- Super Goat Man - (2004) - short story by Jonathan Lethem
- John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner - (2006) - short story by Susanna Clarke
- The Book of Martha - (2003) - short story by Octavia E. Butler
- The Vita Æterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last Till Kingdom Come - (1993) - short story by Yann Martel
- Sleight of Hand - (2009) - short story by Peter S. Beagle
- Mythago Wood - (1981) - novelette by Robert Holdstock
- 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - (2008) - short story by Kij Johnson
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