Modern Classics of FantasyGardner R. Dozois This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois's anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction (SMP, 1992) has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre's finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy. |
Contents
Trouble with Water Horace L Gold | 1 |
The Gnarly Man L Sprague de Camp | 18 |
The Golem Avram Davidson | 38 |
Extempore Damon Knight | 58 |
Scyllas Daughter Fritz Leiber | 80 |
The Overworld Jack Vance | 131 |
The Signaller Keith Roberts | 155 |
The Manor of Roses Thomas Burnett Swann | 182 |
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule Lucius Shepard | 377 |
A Cabin on the Coast Gene Wolfe | 401 |
Paper Dragons James P Blaylock | 412 |
Into Gold Tanith Lee | 427 |
Flowers of Edo Bruce Sterling | 451 |
Buffalo Gals Wont You Come Out Tonight Ursula K Le Guin | 472 |
A Gift of the People Robert Sampson | 497 |
John Crowley | 513 |
Death and the Executioner Roger Zelazny | 232 |
The Configuration of the North Shore R A Lafferty | 266 |
The Tale of Hauk Poul Anderson | 291 |
Manatee Gal Aint You Coming Out Tonight Avram Davidson | 309 |
The Troll T H White | 339 |
Gods Hooks Howard Waldrop | 359 |
Blunderbore Esther M Friesner | 531 |
The Changelings Tale Michael Swanwick | 569 |
Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros Peter S Beagle | 584 |
Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast Suzy McKee Charnas | 602 |
Recommended Reading | 643 |
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