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The big book of modern fantasy : the ultimate collection

Call Number

  • FANTASY BIG (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.

Physical Description

xviii, 876 pages ; 24 cm

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."--

Notes

"A Vintage Books original."

Contents

  • Introduction / Ten rounds with grandfather clock / The circular valley / Signs and symbols / The Zahir / Liane the wayfarer/ Poolwana's orchid / The man who sold rope to gnoles / O ugly bird! / The gopherwood box / My life in the bush of ghosts (excerpt) / A very old man with enormous wings / The anything box / Lean times in Lankhmar / The dreaming city / Cronopios and Famas / Kaya-Kalp (metamorphosis) / The last dragon in the world / The drowned giant / The monster / Narrow valley / The sinister apartment / The origin of the birds / The prey / The topless tower / The barbarian / the youngest doll / The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ark of bones / Winged creatures / Linnaeus forgets / The erl-king / The great night of the trains / The tale of dragons and dreamers / The white horse child / The dreamstone / Five letters from an Eastern empire / The ice dragon / One time / Sister light, sister dark / The luck in the head / Warlock at the wheel / Mrs. Todd's shortcut / On the dark side of the station where the train never stops / After the hurricane / The girl who went to the rich neighborhood / The bystander
  • Wild boys: variations on a theme / The mole king / What the tapster saw / The fool / The flying creatures of Fra Angelico / A Mexican fairy tale / The boy in the tree / TV people / Alice in Prague or the curious room / Moon songs / The life and adventures of shed number XII / The fellowship of the dragon / Troll bridge / Longing for blood / A brief visit to Bonnyville / Travels with the Snow Queen / The neurosis of containment / The darktree wheel / Foetus / Tan-Tan and dry bone / Where does the town go at night? / Pop art / State secrets of Aphasia / The window / The wight of words / All the water in the world / The kite of stars / Mogo / The malady of ghostly cities / End of the line / I left my heart in Skaftafell / The grassdreaming tree / La peau verte / A hard truth about waste management / Bufo Rex / The arrest of the Great Mimille / Aunts / For life / The spring of Dongke Temple / The wordeaters / Creature / Beyond the sea gate of the scholar-pirates of Sarsköe / The bear dresser's secret / Table with ocean / The jinn

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