A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic [Paperback]

Margaret Weis (Editor), Tanya Huff (Collaborator), Neil Gaiman (Collaborator), Mercedes Lackey (Collaborator), C.J. Cherryh (Collaborator), Karl Edward Wagner (Collaborator), Poul Anderson (Collaborator), Charles L. Fontenay (Collaborator), Orson Scott Card (Collaborator), Lois Tilton (Collaborator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2002

Going all the way back to Homer's 'Odyssey', the 'quest' is a popular and well-respected story-telling format in Western literature. This volume collects classic quest stories, including tales from by Neil Gaiman and Marion Zimmer Bradley, and the Mercedes Lackey story 'The Cup and The Cauldron'.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In her rather inelegantly titled A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic, Margaret Weis, coathor of the Dragonlance and Death Gate series, collects her favorite stories of brave missions and heroic undertakings. Whether it's Charles L. Fontenay's The Silk and the Song, in which a young human tries to free his fellow humans from enslavement to the tailed, four-fingered Hussirs, or Lois Tilton's Greek mythology inspired Firebearer, in which a young blacksmith tries to rescue the god who gave humans fire, we turn, writes Weis, to quest stories to learn how to be heroes of our own lives.
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From Booklist

The latest of Warner Aspect's commendable trade paperback anthologies demonstrates variations on the quest theme to fantasy fans lately recruited or reenergized by the recent film of The Fellowship of the Ring. So doing, it shows the range of the quest theme and the proficiency of Weis as an editor. Two authors no longer with us, Poul Anderson and Karl Edward Wagner, are represented by, respectively, a humorous short piece and a rather dark one concerned with the price of setting lovers off on perilous quests. C. J. Cherryh presents a king who learns from a dragon, and in arguably the best story in the book, Orson Scott Card gives us another dragon, slain by a warrior who knew already more than the dragon expected. Michael Moorcock's contribution is about his staple character Elric, Neil Gaiman's is predictably dark, but each is representative of its author's most serious work. Think of this as an intelligent grab-bag, suitable to just about every fantasy collection. Roland Green
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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Aspect (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446679275
• ISBN-13: 978-0446679275
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,823,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars kindle sample includes contents and copyrights, August 31, 2011

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Anniepoo "just myself" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (Kindle Edition)

Despite the product description there is nothing by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and from Margaret Weis, there is only the Introduction and no story. I suggest interested readers download the Kindle sample to peruse the contents. I also suggest Amazon and/or the publisher remove Marion Zimmer Bradley as a linked author. Other than that, this looks like a nice collection of related short stories, and Margaret Weis usually has good taste as an editor. I did enjoy the half-a-story by C.J. Cherryh, though not enough to invest $10 in a short story collection at this time (I have other books I want to buy first... :D)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Collection, April 3, 2004

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This review is from: A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (Paperback)

I all want to say in this short review is that this is one of the best (short) collections of fantasy stories out there. Every one of the stories is engaging and continues being so all the way till the end. My favorite by far is "Bully and the Beast" by Orson Scott Card. Beautiful and thought-provoking. Most of the stories have humor worked into them too. I highly recommend this collection

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1.0 out of 5 stars The star is for the book not stories, July 31, 2011

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This review is from: A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (Kindle Edition)

First there is little explaination these are RE-printed stories from other books and mags. Second I still have not stumbled on the Marion Zimmer Bradley story, a primary reason for getting this book. At least the price came down and most tales are good if you have not already read them else where.