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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. |
Abstract:
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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