Full-Blooded Fantasy: 8 Spellbinding Tales in Which Anything Is Possible

by Nancy Farmer, J.T. Petty, Hilari Bell

Full-Blooded Fantasy is a one-of-a-kind collection featuring selections from eight of the best fantasy novels published today. Experience the remarkable storytelling of acclaimed fantasy writers such as Nancy Farmer, author of the award-winning The House of the Scorpion; Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, creators of the international phenomenon The Spiderwick Chronicles; and D. J. MacHale, author of the New York Times bestselling series Pendragon.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2005

About the author

Nancy was born in 1941 in Phoenix and grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Nancy eventually got to Africa on a legal ship. She spent more than a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds. Next she was hired to help control tsetse fly in the dense bush on the banks of the Zambezi in Zimbabwe. Part of the time she spent in the capital, Harare, and was introduced to her soon-to-be husband by his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend. He proposed a week later. Harold and Nancy now live in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona on a major drug route for the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the setting for The Lord of Opium. They have a son, Daniel, who is in the U.S. navy.
Nancy's honors include the National Book Award for The House of the Scorpion and Newbery Honors for The Ear, the Eye and The Arm, A Girl Named Disaster and The House of the Scorpion. She is the author of nine novels, three picture books and a number of short stories. Her books have been translated into 26 languages.

Reviews

[Ursula]

This book is an amazing collection of fantasy books. It gave me a great idea of if I liked the books or not without any need to buy them. I recommend this book to anyone who isn't sure of what they want to buy. A great edition to any book collection and it's free!!!

[Lynn Calvin]

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[Jacquelyn Smith]

I loved this little collection of shories, it took me into a world of make believe and dreams.

Stories that I can read to my grandchildren.

[Scott Marlowe]

Didn't realize it's just bits and pieces of full-length works. What's the point?

[Summer Neill]

I’ve read all the books. I don’t think this was an excerpt sampling. I thought they were new stories.

[Reg]

Some of the selections could have been put in better context and I didn't really care for all of them. But it was good for what it was (an advertisement for other books).