Power. We all want it. They’ve got it—witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers: those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summon fantastic beasts, and transform lead into gold… or *you* into a frog.
From Gandalf to Harry Potter to the Last Airbender, wizardry has never been more exciting and popular. Enter a world where anything is possible, where imagination becomes reality. Experience the thrill of power: the way of the wizard. Acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams ( *The Living Dead* ) brings you thirty-two of the most spellbinding tales ever written, by some of today’s most magical talents, including Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green, and George R.R. Martin.
CONTENTS
01 – George R.R. Martin, *In The Lost Lands*
02 – David Barr Kirtley, *Family Tree*
03 – Susanna Clarke, *John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner*
04 – Delia Sherman, *Wizard’s Apprentice*
05 – Jeffrey Ford, *The Sorcerer Minus*
06 – C.C. Finlay, *Life So Dear or Peace So Sweet*
07 – Rajan Khanna, *Card Sharp*
08 – Genevieve Valentine, *So Deep that the Bottom Could Not Be Seen*
09 – Nnedi Okorafor, *The Go-Slow*
10 – Krista Hoeppner Leahy, *Too Fatal a Poison*
11 – Orson Scott Card, *Jamaica*
12 – Robert Silverberg, *The Sorcerer’s Apprentice* ( **content warning** : sexual assault)
13 – Wendy N. Wagner, *The Secret of Calling Rabbits*
14 – Kelly Link, *The Wizards of Perfil*
15 – Neil Gaiman, *How to Sell the Ponti Bridge*
16 – Christie Yant, *The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories*
17 – Mike Resnick, *Winter Solstice* ( **content warning** : dementia)
18 – Cinda Williams Chima, *The Trader and the Slave*
19 – Adam-Troy Castro, *Cerile and the Journeyer*
20 – Yoon Ha Lee, *Counting the Shapes*
21 – Lev Grossman, *Endgame*
22 – Simon R. Green, *Street Wizard*
23 – T.A. Pratt, *Mommy Issues of the Dead*
24 – Jeremiah Tolbert, *One-Click Banishment*
25 – Jonathan L. Howard, *The Ereshkigal Working*
26 – David Farland, *Feeding the Feral Children*
27 – Vylar Kaftan, *The Orange-Tree Sacrifice*
28 – Desirina Boskovich, *Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear* ( **content warning** : sexual assault)
29 – Peter S. Beagle, *El Regalo*
30 – Ursula K. Le Guin, *The Word of Unbinding*
31 – John R. Fultz, *The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria*
32 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, *The Secret of the Blue Star*