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A modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Mieville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee.

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March 1, 2016
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1613471335
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Centipede Press; First Edition (March 1, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1613471335
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1613471333
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 3 x 1 x 5 inches

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Hugo Award winner Ann VanderMeer founded the critically acclaimed Buzzcity Press and she currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, the oldest fantasy magazine in the world. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, The New Weird, Steampunk and Fast Ships, Black Sails, recently nominated for a Shirley Jackson award. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she also coedited The Leonardo Variations and Last Drink Bird Head anthologies.
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Barbadian writer Dr. Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds, The Galaxy Game, and The Blue, Beautiful World, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. Lord also edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.
She was a judge for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature. She has taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she co-facilitated the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Workshop in Barbados. She has been a featured author at literary festivals from Adelaide to Edinburgh to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago.
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Heather

Spring for the physical copy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2019

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I'd like to preface this review by saying that if you're thinking of getting the book, spring for the hardcover/physical edition; the ebook doesn't include the pictures.

I was only interested in this book for the Valente short story, but ultimately I'm glad I picked it up. Not every story was a winner, very few were actually memorable to me, but I had enough fun to justify the read. I had no quarrel with the entries that just detailed the titular creatures, but I really enjoyed the entries that turned the creatures into stories, however some entries began that way and then sort of veered off to explain the reality the creature inhabited instead of the titular creature.

Of course I loved the Valente story, and I also really liked the Weialalaleia and The Daydreamer By Proxy. While I enjoyed it enough, I think I need to revisit it, with illustrations, to really be able to appreciate it.

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cyberalchemist

nice book, pity about the content.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2016

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First off, the production values of the book are high, as you might expect from Centipede. It is sewn, cloth binding. It is heavily and well illustrated. The paper is printed to look old. It feels good. As an artefact it is well worth owning.

I have not finished the whole book, so I may change this review later, but so far the beasts, are a bit arch. They are not particularly challenging or imaginative. There's the creature made of ears, which has an ambiguous relationship with humans. The tortoise which is a chameleon (making its body look like rocks or even typewriters). The rooks which control people to make carnage for their feasts. There are obviously fake quotes from fake books and documents etc. If some of this documentation was true then the existence of the creatures would not be dubious....

I have not previously heard of most of the authors, and it seems unlikely I will encounter many of them again,

I'd suggest purchasing borges book of imaginary beings first, or even a 'monster manual' for imagination, but the book is lovely to look at and hold.

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debra ann haines

Very good dark stories!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2017

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A well done compilation of dark tales. Each one goes with the creature it depicts. They range from very dark to funny. Some if the tales are more introspective. But the price is kind of high for a small book. But very good nonetheless!

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Robert M. Seater

Brilliant intellectual collection of bizarre monsters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2017

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Brilliant. Every entry is creative and intellectual in a different way. The creatures described are not conventional fantasy monsters but more surreal and bizarre. They are sometimes allegorical (but not preachy) and sometimes obscure (but not unapproachable). More impressive is that every chapter is clever and original in a different way -- it's not just the same cute idea taken from different angles, but lots of different very original takes on the weirdest monsters imaginable. Every chapter is a delight to read,

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James Parrott

gorgeous artwork

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2016

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A beautiful book with gorgeous artwork. A wondrous line-up of writers offering up gloriously recondite fictions.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

Not a novel or a short story collection or anything like that, but fiction just the same

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2018

What a peculiar little book.

It is a series of 28 descriptions of various imaginary beasts, ranging from the silly to the chilling to the just plain out-there.

Yes, 28. One for each letter of the alphabet, plus one for "&" and one for " ".

Plus, bonus! brief beasts after each main beast, most of which are riffs on the name of the writer of the main beast.

As one would expect, a few specific not-exactly-stories stand out for me. "Bartleby's Typewriter", by Corey Redekop, is a parable on the negative side of camouflage. "Orsinus Liborum", by Catherine M. Valente, is about, well, a type of bear that eats books. And " " by China Miéville, is about absence and presence in a rather postmodern mode.

A few stories - I'll not name names, as others would undoubtedly enjoy them more than I did - were a bit of a slog for me. But most were enjoyable, in the same way one enjoyed the old Analog column (or whatever it was) "Probability Zero:" realistic speculations on ideas that are, on the face of it, ridiculous.

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