Year's Best Fantasy 9

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Tor Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2009 - Fiction - 222 pages

Twenty-eight doses of wonder, including contributions by Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, and Jeffrey Ford.

From the distant past to the present day, from Antarctica and Mars to worlds that never were, the tales in this book bring news from nowhere-and everywhere. Fantasy is a mode of storytelling, a method of entertainment, a mode of argument, and a way of seeing. Here, presented by two of the most distinguished anthologists of the day, are twenty-eight stories that see, tell, argue, and entertain.

Includes contributions from Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Kage Baker, Daryl Gregory, Lisa Goldstein, Al Michaud, Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, John Brown, Richard Bowes, Kij Johnson, Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, Geoff Ryman, Marc Laidlaw, Liz Williams, James Morrow, Kris Dikeman [as Kristine Dikeman], Randy McCharles, Kage Baker, Richard Parks, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Harland, Howard Waldrop, Delia Sherman, James Stoddard, Stephen Woodworth, Jeffrey Ford, and Kim Wilkins.


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Contents

Introduction
2
Shoggoths in Bloom
5
The Rabbis Hobby
23
Running the Snake
47
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm
63
Readers Guide
82
The Salting and Canning of Benevolence
89
Araminta or The Wreck of the Amphidrake
128
Queen of the Sunlit Shore
260
Lady Witherspoons Solution
269
Dearest Cecily
293
Ringing the Changes in Okotoks Alberta
300
Caverns of Mystery
327
Skin Deep
343
King Pelles the Sure
363
A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead
373

A Buyers Guide to Maps of Antarctica
145
From the Clay of His Heart
154
If Angels Fight
179
26 Monkeys and the Abyss
203
Philologos or A Murder in Bistrita
213
The FilmMakers of Mars
228
Childrun
237
Avast Abaft
383
Gift from a Spring
392
The First Editions
413
The Olverung
440
Daltharee
455
The Forest
463
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Year's Best Fantasy 9
David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer
No preview available - 2009

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About the author (2009)

David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times.

Kathryn Cramer co-edited the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology The Architecture of Fear and was the editor of its widely-praised sequel Walls of Fear. She has edited and co-edited several other anthologies. She lives in Pleasantville, New York.

Bibliographic information

TitleYear's Best Fantasy 9
AuthorsDavid G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer
PublisherTor Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN1429940182, 9781429940184
Length222 pages
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