Modern Classics of Fantasy
10 best books like Modern Classics of Fantasy (Gardner Dozois): The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories 2006, Full Moon City, Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder, The Mammoth Book of SF Wars, Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction, Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Worlds that Weren't, Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy
| Author | Tom Shippey |
| ISBN | 0192803816 |
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1416584137 |
DANGER LURKS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY . . . BUT NOT ALWAYS WHERE YOU EXPECT IT.
From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 1568650396 |
Note, Dec. 17, 2016: I edited this review just now to correct two misspelled words.
July 2, 2011
Hartwell is a respected anthologist in the field of speculative fiction, so when I got a good deal on this collection a couple of years ago, I grabbed it up. His objective here (set forth in his short...
| Author | Ian Watson |
| ISBN | 0762445920 |
Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power. So what will future wars be like? And what will cause them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a collection of gripping SF stories which explores...
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0061364088 |
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry...
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801623 |
To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true...
In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies...
The Mammoth Book of Monsters
| Author | Stephen Jones |
| ISBN | 0786719761 |
Everybody knows the most memorable monsters--vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists' creations--and you will find all of those classic creatures suitably featured in this monsterrific new anthology from multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones.
But other monstrosities...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0451460545 |
Worlds That Weren't is a collection of four alternate history stories, each written by a different author known in part for their own work in the genre. Each story diverges from history as we know it at a different point, with some going much further than others. The stories by S.M. Stirling and Mary Gentle...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy
| Author | Bill Fawcett |
| ISBN | 0451463161 |
This is June’s book group selection. We’ve read eight Nebula Awards books to this point – in fact, when the book is brought to the table, it is the one selection we don’t bother with the voting process. We’re going to read this one!
This year’s Nebula Awards (which is always about...
The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales : The Ultimate Collection of Magical Fantasy from Tom Holt, Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Moorcock, Peter Crowther, Louise Cooper, and many more
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 0786714085 |
Sorcery is all around us. From a child's struggles to control magical powers for the first time, to the epic clashes of forces of good and evil on a titanic scale, here are more than twenty of the finest in contemporary and classic wizardry tales. Ranging from Michael Moorcock's "Master of Chaos," the...
| Author | Jervey Tervalon |
| ISBN | 1888451750 |
Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances, is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312369425 |
Sorry for virtually the same review on whole anthology set
I own a trade sized paper back.
I started this anthology with the 5th Annual and I loved it so much I started collecting the whole set by signing up for pre-orders with the book store.
What sets this anthology apart from...
