***** *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
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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.