Year's Best Fantasy 9Twenty-eight doses of wonder, including contributions by Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, and Jeffrey Ford. |
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... Skin Deep · Richard Parks 363 . . . . . King Pelles the Sure · Peter S. Beagle 373 . . . . . A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead · Richard Harland 383 . . . . . Avast, Abaft! · Howard Waldrop 392 . . . . . Gift from a Spring ...
... skin. Harding kicks, scrabbles. Hips banged, shins bruised, he hauls himself and is himself hauled over the sideboard of the boat. He's shivering under a wool navy blanket before he realizes that the fisherman has got it over him ...
... skin parting on the paper edge until he sees the blood. He snatches his hand back. Belatedly, the papercut stings. “Oh,” he says, and sticks his thumb in his mouth. Blood tastes like the ocean. Half an hour later he's on the telephone ...
... skin tells him he's not dreaming. Had he come down through the streets of the town in the dark, barefoot over frost, insensibly sleepwalking? Had the shoggoth called him? Put me ashore. The shoggoth is loath to leave him. It clings ...
... skin above the shin, wore bathing caps and little wraps over their shoulders, and in general appeared about as seductive as any of my mother's friends, only younger. Paradoxically, the severe costumes made them look much more youthful ...
Contents
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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 |