24th Book Complete
24) Xanadu edited by Jane Yolen
Genre: Fantasy -- Short story and poem anthology of 20th century American literature
Pages: 256
Summary: [from barnes&noble.com]Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world. This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself.
[total contents]
The Poacher by Ursula K. Le Guin*
Lucy Maria by Lisa Tuttle
Unnalash by Tanith Lee
Return by Patrick Hayden
Gravity by Pat Schneider
To Scale by Nancy Kress
The Stone Girl by Elise Matthesen
Attention Shoppers by Steven Brust
Jaguar Lord by Anna Kirwan-Vogel
Pale Moon by Frances Hoekstra
The Ring at Yarrow by Jane Yolen
Still Life with Woman and Apple by Leslea Newman
The Perfectly Round Bagel by Robert Abel*
Owlswater by Pamela Dean*
After Centuries by Donna Waidtlow
Passage by Gardner Dozois
The Hound of Merin by Eleanor Arnason*
It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea by William Stafford
A Boy and His Wolf: Three Versions of a Fable by John Morressy*
Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage by Will Shetterly*
Baby Face by Esther Friesner
The Pale Thin God by Mike Resnick*
*phewthatwasalonglist*
No opinion this time beyond: Short stories are strange. Some of them were very good. My favorites, I put a star by. On the list above. *phew* Also, I don't remember what every single one of the stories above were about, since I already brought the book back to the library (silly move) so some might have been really good, and I just forgot (in which case they weren't that amazing, I suppose, since I couldn't remember them).
24 / 50 books. 48% done!
7314 / 15000 pages. 49% done!
Now reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
[It's amazing so far. Which is good cause I haveta do a huge report on it, and it would be bad if it was boring.]
Genre: Fantasy -- Short story and poem anthology of 20th century American literature
Pages: 256
Summary: [from barnes&noble.com]Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world. This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself.
[total contents]
The Poacher by Ursula K. Le Guin*
Lucy Maria by Lisa Tuttle
Unnalash by Tanith Lee
Return by Patrick Hayden
Gravity by Pat Schneider
To Scale by Nancy Kress
The Stone Girl by Elise Matthesen
Attention Shoppers by Steven Brust
Jaguar Lord by Anna Kirwan-Vogel
Pale Moon by Frances Hoekstra
The Ring at Yarrow by Jane Yolen
Still Life with Woman and Apple by Leslea Newman
The Perfectly Round Bagel by Robert Abel*
Owlswater by Pamela Dean*
After Centuries by Donna Waidtlow
Passage by Gardner Dozois
The Hound of Merin by Eleanor Arnason*
It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea by William Stafford
A Boy and His Wolf: Three Versions of a Fable by John Morressy*
Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage by Will Shetterly*
Baby Face by Esther Friesner
The Pale Thin God by Mike Resnick*
*phewthatwasalonglist*
No opinion this time beyond: Short stories are strange. Some of them were very good. My favorites, I put a star by. On the list above. *phew* Also, I don't remember what every single one of the stories above were about, since I already brought the book back to the library (silly move) so some might have been really good, and I just forgot (in which case they weren't that amazing, I suppose, since I couldn't remember them).
24 / 50 books. 48% done!
7314 / 15000 pages. 49% done!
Now reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
[It's amazing so far. Which is good cause I haveta do a huge report on it, and it would be bad if it was boring.]