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Modern classics of fantasy

Author: Gardner R Dozois
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Thirty-two fantasy stories. They range from the 1992 Death and the Lady by Judith Tarr, on a medieval otherworld, to the 1939 Trouble with Water by H.I. Gold, putting a new spin on the story of Midas, the king of Greek mythology who could turn to gold anything he touched.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gardner R Dozois
ISBN: 031215173X 9780312151737
OCLC Number: 35110297
Description: xxiii, 647 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Trouble with water / Horace L. Gold --
The gnarly man / L. Sprague de Camp --
The golem / Avram Davidson --
Walk like a mountain / Manly Wade Wellman --
Extempore / Damon Knight --
Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber --
Scylla's daughter / Fritz Leiber --
The overworld / Jack Vance --
The signaller / Keith Roberts --
The manor of roses / Thomas Burnett Swann --
Death and the executioner / Roger Zelazny --
The configuration of the North Shore / R.A. Lafferty --
Two sadnesses / George Alec Effinger --
The tale of Hauk / Poul Anderson --
Manatee gal ain't you coming out tonight / Avram Davidson --
The troll / T.H. White --
The sleep of trees / Jane Yolen --
God's hooks! / Howard Waldrop --
The man who painted the Dragon Griaule / Lucius Shepard --
A cabin on the coast / Gene Wolfe --
Paper dragons / James P. Blaylock --
Into gold / Tanith Lee --
Flowers of Edo / Bruce Sterling --
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin --
A gift of the people / Robert Sampson --
Missolonghi 1824 / John Crowley --
Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson --
Blunderbore / Esther M. Friesner --
Death and the lady / Judith Tarr --
The changeling's tale / Michael Swanwick --
Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle --
Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom beast / Suzy McKee Charnas.
Responsibility: edited by Gardner Dozois.

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Thirty-two fantasy stories. They range from the 1992 Death and the Lady by Judith Tarr, on a medieval otherworld, to the 1939 Trouble with Water by H.I. Gold, putting a new spin on the story of Midas, the king of Greek mythology who could turn to gold anything he touched.

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