The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

10 best books like The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (Jack Dann): Young Warriors: Stories of Strength, The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection, The Dragon Quintet, Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy, Harrowing the Dragon, Half-Human, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, The Secret History of Fantasy, Happily Ever After, Modern Classics of Fantasy

AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0375829636
What makes warrior?

This gutsy collection of fifteen original short stories offers a variety of answers to this question with thoughtfulness, heart, and the occasional wink. Compiled by bestselling author Tamora Pierce and folklorist/author Josepha Sherman, Young Warriors includes...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312018525
When I started the anthology, at first I felt robbed.

I hadn't read this one before, so most of the stories were new to me, but I have read other books in the series, as well as other things that the editors have done together.

I wasn't prepared to come back to it. Not only have both fantasy...
AuthorMarvin Kaye
ISBN0765349116
Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors.

Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power.

Mercedes...
AuthorSharyn November
ISBN0142405493
This is going to be a bit of a cheat review because I’ve acknowledged to myself that the only reason I checked out this anthology was to read the Joss and Mavkel story The Real Thing by Alison Goodman. I may choose to keep renewing this thing like a jerk so I can keep it and read the Kelly Link or Tamora Pierce...
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441014437
A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she's drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen. Now she presents a book of previously uncollected short stories, full...
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0590955888
Like us, but not quite...

A girl who hears the sea amongst the busy streets of Manhattan. A princess born with the strength to clutch a sword hilt. A winged boy who cannot fly. In these stories, the kind where trees can become men and girls wake up with snakes for hair, people are not always what they...
AuthorAl Sarrantonio
ISBN0451459776
Now, Sarrantonio presents another daring, all-new anthology showcasing some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers. "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" sets the standard for fantasy in the twenty-first century. Fantasy as literature. Fantasy that reinvigorates and expands the field's...
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1892391996
Step right up and buy your ticket to the impossible marvels of the Barnum Museum. Take a highly caffeinated ride through the Empire of Ice Cream. If you dare, hunt feral archetypes deep within a haunted English forest. Or conquer the New World with a band of geographically-challenged Norsemen.

Tired...
AuthorJohn Klima
ISBN1597802204
Once Upon A Time...

...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312169310
This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic, but now nearly forgotten (Thomas Burnett Swann...
AuthorMike Ashley
ISBN0762438304
I got this short story collection for my birthday, and it's been an absolute well of inspiration and discovery.
Through it, I've discovered lots of great new authors, and also gotten inspiration for my poetry. It's also broadened my idea of what form an Arthurian saga can take.
It's also wonderful...
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
ISBN0809573105
Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins -- when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil,...
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801879
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...
AuthorAnn VanderMeer
ISBN1597800945
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere!
Swashbuckling from...
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0756403847
All in all, a good book. Like any compilation of short stories by different authors, some were better than others. Usually, I found I had a preference for the more humorous stories ("Gordie Culligan vs Dr. Longbeach and the HVAC of Doom" for example), but I really feel my favorite stories were the ones...
AuthorKage Baker
ISBN1596064420
Kage Baker’s death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she wrote prolifically and well, leaving an astonishing...
AuthorEric Flint
ISBN1416555285
A fun read--like a doughnut. Sweet and enjoyable while it's in your mouth, but not much substance and (maybe) bad for your health.

An anthology of mysteries and who-done-its with a fantasy/science fiction/fairy tale twist or connection. Several were "aftermath" or "behind the scenes" takes...
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