| Description |
xviii, 876 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"A Vintage Books original." |
| Summary |
"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer -- Ten rounds with grandfather clock / Maurice Richardson -- The circular valley / Paul Bowlew -- Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Zahir / Jorge Luis Borges -- Liane the wayfarer/ Jack Vance -- Poolwana's orchid / Edgar Mittelholzer -- The man who sold rope to the gnoles / Margaret St. Clair -- O ugly bird! / Manly Wade Wellman -- The gopherwood box / Abraham Sutzkever -- My life in the bush of ghosts (excerpt) / Amos Tutuola -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- The anything box / Zenna Henderson -- Lean times in Lankhmar / Fritz Leiber -- The dreaming city / Michael Moorcock -- Cronopios and Famas / Julio Cortázar -- Kaya-Kalp (metamorphosis) / Intizar Husain -- The last dragon in the world / Tove Jansson -- The drowned giant / J. G. Ballard -- The monster / Satu Waltari -- Narrow valley / R. A. Lafferty -- The sinister apartment / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The origin of the birds / Italo Calvino -- The prey / Bilge Karasu -- The topless tower / Silvina Ocampo -- The barbarian / Joanna Russ -- the youngest doll / Rosario Ferre -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- Winged creatures / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell -- The erl-king / Angela Carter -- The great night of the trains / Sara Gallardo -- The tale of dragons and dreamers / Samuel R. Delany -- The white horse child / Greg Bear -- The dreamstone / C. J. Cherryh -- Five letters from an Eastern empire / Alasdair Gray -- The ice dragon / George R. R. Martin -- One time / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sister light, sister dark / Jane Yolen -- The luck in the head / M. John Harrison -- Warlock at the wheel / Diana Wynne Jones -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- On the dark side of the station where the train never stops / Pat Murphy -- After the hurricane / Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz -- The girl who went to the rich neighborhood / Rachel Pollack -- The bystander / Leena Krohn -- |
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Wild boys: variations on a theme / Karen Joy Fowler -- The mole king / Marie Hermanson -- What the tapster saw / Ben Okri -- The fool / David Drake -- The flying creatures of Fra Angelico / Antonio Tabucchi -- A Mexican fairy tale / Leonora Carrington -- The boy in the tree / Elizabeth Hand -- TV people / Haruki Murakami -- Alice in Prague or the curious room / Angela Carter -- Moon songs / Carol Emshwiller -- The life and adventures of shed number XII / Victor Pelevin -- The fellowship of the dragon / Patricia McKillip -- Troll bridge / Terry Pratchett -- Longing for blood / Vilma Kadleckova -- A brief visit to Bonnyville / D. F. Lewis -- Travels with the Snow Queen / Kelly Link -- The neurosis of containment / Rikki Ducornet -- The darktree wheel / Rhys Hughes -- Foetus / Shelley Jackson -- Tan-Tan and dry bone / Nalo Hopkinson -- Where does the town go at night? / Tanith Lee -- Pop art / Joe Hill -- State secrets of Aphasia / Stepan Chapman -- The window / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The weight of words / Jeffrey Ford -- All the water in the world / Han Song -- The kite of stars / Dean Francis Alfar -- Mogo / Alberto Chimal -- The malady of ghostly cities / Nathan Ballingrud -- End of the line / Aimee Bender -- I left my heart in Skaftafell / Victor LaValle -- The grassdreaming tree / Sheree Reneé Thomas -- La peau verte / Caitlín R. Kiernan -- A hard truth about waste management / Sumanth Prabhaker -- Bufo Rex / Erik Amundsen -- The arrest of the Great Mimille / Manuela Draeger -- Aunts / Karin Tidbeck -- For life / Marta Kisiel -- The spring of Dongke Temple / Qitongren -- The wordeaters / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz -- Creature / Ramsey Shehadeh -- Beyond the sea gate of the scholar-pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix -- The bear dresser's secret / Richard Bowes -- Table with ocean / Alberto Chimal -- The jinn Darazgosh / Musharraf Ali Farooqi. |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction.
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Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst00920710
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
VanderMeer, Ann, editor, writer of introduction.
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VanderMeer, Jeff, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Book of modern fantasy |
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Modern fantasy : the ultimate collection |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Big book of modern fantasy New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020] 9780525563877 (DLC) 2019047609 |
| ISBN |
9780525563860 (trade paperback) |
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0525563865 (trade paperback) |
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9780525563877 (ebook) |
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