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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

A collection of twenty-two fantasy stories and poems features the writing of veterans and newcomers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, Mike Resnick, Jane Yolen, Nancy Kress, Lisa Tuttle, and Steven Brust. Original.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Those who want to know what's right-and wrong-with contemporary fantasy need look no further than this exemplary series. Editor Yolen (The Devil's Arithmetic) describes this third annual entry as "an all-purpose fantasy melange." It opens with Shira Daemon's "Dairy Queen," which tells of a young runaway whose capture by cruel fairies ironically frees her from her lonely life. In a minimal number of words, the author manages to walk the delicate line between the ancient and the contemporary with grace and skill. Other lesser-known writers also make good showings. Micole Sudberg's "Calliope" delightfully yet frighteningly links fantasy and horror, while Michelle Stone's "The Lizard Queen" is a promising first sale. Elsewhere, a few selections-Nancy Etchemendy's "Mollusk Dreams" and Claire Parman Brown's "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" being the best among them-suffer from presenting any male character as cruel, unless he is an artist, or at least (as in Jo Clayton's "The Man Who Loved the River") claims to be one. There are some unfortunate juxtapositions as well, such as the pairing of Susan Palwick's exquisite "Jo's Hair" with Astrid Julian's "The Hunter and the Stag," a perfectly capable tale that suffers only by comparison. In addition to the stories, Yolen includes several poems, including a nifty bit of doggerel from Lawrence Schimel, making this, despite some flaws, the clearest picture available of the state of the art of modern fantasy.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The 18 stories and four poems collected here launch a new series dedicated to broadening the bounderies of the genre. They are written by a talented array of fantasy authors, including Tanith Lee, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, and Mike Resnick
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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My novel The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. I've since published Borrowed Tides (2001),The Consciousness Plague (2002), and The Pixel Eye (2003). The Plot To Save Socrates published in 2006 - Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun". My science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Nine nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and eight other languages. I appear from time to time on "The O'Reilly Factor," "The CBS Evening News," "Nightline," "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and other TV and radio programs - I like talking just as much as writing. I'm also a songwriter, and have been in several bands over the years - one had two records out on Atlantic Records in 1960s. My 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme (on HappySad Records) was re-issued on CD by Beatball/Big Pink Records in 2009, and on re-pressed vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records in 2010. I was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. And last but not least: I'm Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.