Pharaoh Fantastic

by Martin H. Greenberg, Brittiany A. Koren (Editor/Contributor), Tanya Huff (Contributor)

From the Biblical Ten Commandments to the latest Stargate and Mummy films, the world of Ancient Egypt continues to mystify, enthrall, and fire the imagination. These original new stories cross the shifting sands of time to dig up the truth about Moses' visions, the magic of mummification, and the power of animal-gods that still prowl the desert of our dreams.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Egypt

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 3, 2002

About the author

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.

Reviews

[Susan]

♥"Succession" by Tanya Huff reprinted in Relative Magic and again in Nights of the Round Table re-read 3/29/2003 re-read 3/9/2015
♥"Whatever Was Forgotten" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman re-printed in The Mummy Megapack and collected Antiquities) RE-read 8/16/2015
♦"Beneath the Eye of the Hawk" by Jane Lindskold collected in Curiousities read 3/29/2003

The Voice of Authority • novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
A Light in the Desert • shortstory by Rosemary Edghill
The Scroll of Wisdom • novelette by Josepha Sherman
Let Our People Go • novelette by Mickey Zucker Reichert
To See Beyond Darkness • novelette by Bill McCay
A Lion Let Loose Upon the World • novelette by Brendan DuBois
Games of Fate • novelette by Fiona Patton
The Spin Wizard • novelette by Laura Resnick
That God Won't Hurt • shortstory by Susan Sizemore
Basted • shortstory by Alan Dean Foster

[Matt D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like all anthologies, it had some good stories and some not so great ones in it. There were only a handful of the thirteen that I would call good, and just two or three of those that I felt were excellent. But those few stories made the whole book worthwhile, overall. It was, if nothing else, a nice little diversion of a novel.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I highly recommend this collection of historical fantasy short stories. The tales just got better and better and were very well written. Completely entertaining!!