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The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume One

by Paula Guran
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<p>Escape on a journey from the ordinary to the extraordinary with award-winning fantasy editor Paula Guran.</p><p>This superbly curated collection explores myth and fable, dark and light—a heroic creature facing a dangerous demon; an earthly love facing the mossy decay of death. With tales of living ball gowns and timid monsters, of modern witches and multidimensional magic, these twenty-four stories will transport you from fantastical realms that push the limits of imagination to alternative realities mirroring much of our own.</p><p>Discover bewitchment and wonder, the surreal and the chimerical, in a fantasy anthology representing a diverse array of accomplished talent from around the world . . . and perhaps beyond.</p>

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Year's Best Fantasy

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 16, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781645060505

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781645060505
      • File size: 6783 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      July 29, 2022
      The latest anthology from Guran (her fiftieth as an editor) brings together a wide range of fantasy fiction from the past year. The editorial scope of this collection is fairly broad, with the only real constraint being that the darkest fantasy stories are reserved for Guran's horror and dark fantasy anthology series, also released by Pyr. Overall this collection reflects Guran's long experience as an editor, and while every reader might not love every story, there is no story in this anthology that is less than solid and no fantasy reader will finish this collection disappointed. Some standouts included Sofia Samatar's ""Three Tales from the Blue Library,"" a set of short fables that are funny, tragic, and fantastic all at once. In Carlos Hernandez and C. S. E. Cooney's ""A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid,"" the story of an executioner tasked with changing debtors to fish and murderers to birds is intermixed with a philosophical treatise by the next debtor sentenced to be transformed. All in all this is a strong collection certain to please both the casual reader and established fantasy fan alike.

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