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Finding Magic

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Like the previous three collections ("What ho, magic!", "Relative magic" and "Stealing magic"), "Finding magic" shows that Tanya Huff is at home in a lot of settings and genres. There are sci-fi stories, fantasy stories and re-written fairy tales, and all of them have the trademark Huff humour, suspense and an enjoyable cast of characters. Some of the stories are prequels or sequels to her novels, but you don't have to know the novels to understand the story. For fans, these stories are a nice bonus. Each story has a little foreword by the author.

Stories featured in "Finding magic" are:
I knew a guy once
Choice of ending
He said, Sidhe said
After school specials
Finding Marcus
Jack
Slow poison
Tuesday evenings, six thirty to seven
Blood in the water
Not that kind of war
Under summons
A woman's work
The things everyone knows
We two may meet (Previously published in "Stealing magic", 2nd edition)
The demon's den
Brock
All the ages of man

Further there are a foreword, an essay about Huff's stories in this collection and a complete (!) bibliography of Huff's work.
If you are a Tanya Huff fan, this book is a must-buy. If you'd like an introduction to her work, it's a good start. And if you just like to read entertaining short stories with good dialogue, interesting characters and nice plots you'll probably like this book.
Recommended!

I keep finding these gems and wonder how in the world I missed them.

Highly recommended.

Not a sequel to "Stealing Magic," a stand alone collection of short stories to warm your heart.