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9781892391377

Year's Best Fantasy 6

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  • ISBN13:

    9781892391377

  • ISBN10:

    1892391376

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-09-15
  • Publisher: Tachyon Pubns
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Summary

Continuing to showcase the most compelling new genre fiction, this annual compendium presents an impressive lineup of bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy. Fantasy fiction continues to attract talented authors and dedicated readers, and this intriguing sampler features the best new tales. Whether learning garden magic, battling trolls, or discovering one's relative mortality, these wondrous stories tell of epic heroes and ordinary people performing feats of glory, honor, and occasional ridiculousness. This year's contributors include Timothy J. Anderson, Laird Barron, Deborah Coates, Candas Jane Dorsey, Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Gavin J. Grant, Ann Harris, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Claude Lalumiere, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Tim Pratt, Patrick Samphire, Heather Shaw, Delia Sherman, Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Sullivan, Greg Van Eekhout, Jeff Vandermeer, Liz Williams, Connie Willis, and Gene Wolfe.

Author Biography

David G. Hartwell is the senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of The New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders, the editor of the anthologies The Dark Descent and The World Treasury of Science Fiction, and the coeditor of two anthologies of the best Canadian science fiction, Northern Stars and Northern Suns. He lives in Pleasantville, New York. Kathryn Cramer is an editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award. She is the coeditor of the anthologies The Ascent of Wonder, The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance, and Year's Best Science Fiction. She lives in Pleasantville, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Eating Heart 1(4)
Yoon Ha Lee
The Denial 5(15)
Bruce Sterling
The Fraud 20(22)
Esther M. Friesner
Sunbird 42(16)
Neil Gaiman
Shard of Glass 58(20)
Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Farmer's Cat 78(6)
Jeff VanderMeer
Crab Apple 84(12)
Patrick Samphire
Comber 96(8)
Gene Wolfe
Walpurgis Afternoon 104(21)
Delia Sherman
Monster 125(15)
Kelly Link
Robots and Falling Hearts 140(14)
Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout
Still Life with Boobs 154(16)
Anne Harris
Heads Down, Thumbs Up 170(11)
Gavin J. Grant
Mom and Mother Teresa 181(6)
Candas Jane Dorsey
Newbie Wrangler 187(7)
Timothy J. Anderson
Being Here 194(8)
Claude Lalumière
The Imago Sequence 202(45)
Laird Barron
Magic in a Certain Slant of Light 247(10)
Deborah Coates
Single White Farmhouse 257(9)
Heather Shaw
Read It in the Headlines! 266(5)
Garth Nix
Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane 271(18)
Jonathon Sullivan
Mortegarde 289(12)
Liz Williams
Inside Job 301
Connie Willis

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