Xanadu [Hardcover]

Jane Yolen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1993

A collection of new fantasy stories by some of the nation's most acclaimed writers includes contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, William Stafford, Robert Abel, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, and others.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This enjoyable collection inaugurates what seems likely to become a major annual showcase for previously unpublished short works of fantasy. Its most impressive feature is its broad range: editor Yolen ( Briar Rose ) convokes proven masters (Ursula K. Le Guin), the well-known (Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee) and newcomers (Elise Mattesen); she also includes genre writers (Steven K.Z. Brust, Pamela Dean) as well as mainstream writers (Robert Abel, Leslea Newman). The selections themselves vary in form from Donna Waidtlow's five-line poem "After Centuries" to Dean's novella "Owlswater," and they display an admirable diversity in atmosphere, tone, setting and subject matter too, together exploring the many possibilities under the umbrella "fantasy." Anna Kirwan-Vogel's "Jaguar Lord" is an enchanting heroic tale of a Mayan jaguar hunt; Will Shetterly's "Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage" is a tale of psychological horror; Lisa Tuttle's "Lucy Maria" adds a twist to a classic ghost-story plot. Though some of the pieces are slight, none are less than competent, and the standouts--among them Kress's "To Scale," Eleanor Arnason's "The Hound of Merin" and William Stafford's poem "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea"--deliver the pleasures of fantasy at its best. A promising start to an even more promising series.
Copyright 1992 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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (January 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031285367X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312853679
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,015,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.