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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

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***** *WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER** • A **true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons * *—f*** *rom bestselling authors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer* *** Step through a shimmering portal … a worn wardrobe door … a schism in sky … into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest. Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s definitive *The Big Book of Classic Fantasy* , this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Author

Aimee Bender, Alasdair Gray, Alberto Chimal, Amos Tutuola, Angela Carter, Antonio Tabucchi, Ben Okri, Bilge Karasu, C. J. Cherryh, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carol Emshwiller, D. F. Lewis, David Drake, Dean Francis Alfar, Diana Wynne Jones, Edgar Mittelholzer, Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz, Elizabeth Hand, Erik Amundsen, Fred Chappell, Fritz Leiber, Gabriel García Márquez, Garth Nix, George R. R. Martin, Greg Bear, Han Song, Haruki Murakami, Henry Dumas, Intizar Husain, Italo Calvino, J. G. Ballard, Jack Vance, Jane Yolen, Jeffrey Ford, Joanna Russ, Joe Hill, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Karen Joy Fowler, Karin Tidbeck, Kelly Link, Leena Krohn, Leonora Carrington, Leslie Marmon Silko, M. John Harrison, Manly Wade Wellman, Manuela Draeger, Margaret St. Clair, Marie Hermanson, Marta Kisiel, Maurice Richardson, Michael Moorcock, Mikhail Bulgakov, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Nalo Hopkinson, Nathan Ballingrud, Pat Murphy, Patricia A. McKillip, Paul Bowles, Qitongren, R. A. Lafferty, Rachel Pollack, Ramsey Shehadeh, Rhys Hughes, Richard Bowes, Rikki Ducornet, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Rosario Ferré, Samuel R. Delany, Sara Gallardo, Satu Waltari, Shelley Jackson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Silvina Ocampo, Stepan Chapman, Stephen King, Sumanth Prabhaker, Tanith Lee, Tatyana Tolstaya, Terry Pratchett, Tove Jansson, Ursula K. le Guin, Victor Lavalle, Victor Pelevin, Vilma Kadlečková, Vladimir Nabokov, Zenna Henderson

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9780525563860

Language

English

Pages

1500

Publication Date

07-20-2020

Publisher

Vintage

1 review for The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

  1. Rated 5 out of 5

    serresng (verified owner)

    While I began this book by reading it sequentially, I ended up skipping around to sample many of the different authors. This volume is an impressive survey of post-WWII fantasy that includes many of the stalwarts of the genre, while also exposing readers to many less-famous authors, or those who are typically classified as outside the fantasy genre. I didn’t adore every story in the volume and skipped portions of some if they did not engage my interest, but for a book this thorough, if there was a story I disliked, there was always a great new one shortly thereafter. This book is a treasure, as are the Vandermeers’ other massive fiction anthologies, and I purchased a physical copy to complement my free advance ebook from Netgalley. Highly recommended.

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