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An edition of The secret history of fantasy (2010)

The secret history of fantasy

1st ed.

Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to cliche d tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!

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Publisher
Tachyon
Language
English
Pages
379

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2010, Tachyon
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Table of Contents

Introduction / by Peter S. Beagle
Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh
Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire
Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip
We are Norsemen / T.C. Boyle
The Barnum Museum / Steven Millhauser
Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King
Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson
Bones / Francesca Lia Block
Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman
Fruit and words / Aimee Bender
The empire of ice cream / Jeffrey Ford
The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick
Super goat man / Jonathan Lethem
John Uskglass and the cumbrian charcoal burner / Susanna Clarke
The book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler
The Vita ©terna Mirror Company / Yann Martel
Sleight of hand / Peter S. Beagle
Mythago wood / Robert Holdstock
26 monkeys, also the abyss / Kij Johnson
Appendix 1: The critics, the monsters, and the fantasists / Ursula LeGuin
Appendix 2: The making of the American fantasy genre / David G. Hartwell.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
San Francisco, CA
Other Titles
Fantasy

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0876608
Library of Congress
PS648.F3 S43 2010, PS648.F3

The Physical Object

Pagination
379 p. ;
Number of pages
379

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25539995M
Internet Archive
secrethistoryfan00beag
ISBN 10
1892391996
ISBN 13
9781892391995
LCCN
2017478891
OCLC/WorldCat
491964427

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