Best American Fantasy
by Jeff VanderMeer
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Read in September, 2007
In the 1950s and 1960s, the distinctions between literary and fantasy fiction lacked rigid outlines. Nothing typified this trend more than editor Judith Merrill's 12 volumes of The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, published from 1956 to 1968. Within her anthologies, such authors as John Graves, William S. Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and <...more
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Read in March, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised -- I hadn't read anything called "fantasy" in years, and that's the main reason my expectations were so...skewed. There were a handful of stories in here that I really LOVED, and most of them I quite liked, and I think I'll actually seek out and read the NEXT one in this series, whenever it comes out. Congrats to the editors and writers!
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Read in July, 2008
Some I really enjoyed, some not so much, as is often the case with more "literary" fantasy. For the most part still better than bad uber-genre short fantasy, but I didn't enjoy as many as I hoped I would. I particularly liked the "A Troop [sic] of Baboons," but I'm especially susceptible to monkeys in my fantasy.
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Read in June, 2008
Why are there so many depressing stories in the world?
Future self, you should know that you probably only stopped reading this book because you had so many others you would rather be reading checked out from the library which has a measly three week lending period.
Future self, you should know that you probably only stopped reading this book because you had so many others you would rather be reading checked out from the library which has a measly three week lending period.
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Some very good, some mediocre. Then again, I have really particular tastes. The story about God's overcoat was my favorite, if only because I was touched by the kindness.
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Read in December, 2007
Blech. Pretentious, and seemingly dedicated to "rescuing" fantasy from genre. Many of the stories were quite bland.
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Read in October, 2007
my sister has a story published in this one, everyone should buy this
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
good people
i'm in this book.
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