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An ambitious anthology that wants to stretch the range of heroic fantasy, to admit different types of heroic action, to allow writers to experiment or get arty. JAS’s introduction and comments on the stories serve to pull the tales together and guide us as to her intentions. I guess I wish there had been twenty of these, not two, and that heroic fantasy had taken off in a few of these wild directions. High standard of stories, a couple of individual fives for me, in a cogently argued project of
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Salmonson apparently considered heroic fantasy to be in a rut, and this was an attempt to break from that, bringing in elements of legend and mythology predating the 'brooding barbarian' motif that dominated stories, and finding other voices and styles. I found this to be a strong and diverse collection that makes me want to seek out more by these authors, especially more that is written in the worlds they briefly sketch here.
In particular, that of Phyllis Ann Karr's "Tales Told to a Toymaker", ...more
In particular, that of Phyllis Ann Karr's "Tales Told to a Toymaker", ...more
A very good collection of heroic fantasy short stories edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Contains stories by Leiber, Silverberg, Yolen, Foster and others.
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