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The authorative companion and follow-up to the acclaimed Science Fiction Hall of Fame  acknowledges the importance of fantasy to modern literature, and enshrine the 30 favorite short stories of all time.

Chosen by popular ballot among the 1000 professionals who make their livings creating America's bestselling dreams, these are the undisputed classics: The unforgettable stories that influenced and shaped the imagination at work in the ...

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Overview

The authorative companion and follow-up to the acclaimed Science Fiction Hall of Fame  acknowledges the importance of fantasy to modern literature, and enshrine the 30 favorite short stories of all time.

Chosen by popular ballot among the 1000 professionals who make their livings creating America's bestselling dreams, these are the undisputed classics: The unforgettable stories that influenced and shaped the imagination at work in the field today.

Here are the stories that shaped the shapers. Here are the stories that will live forever.

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VOYA - Diane Yates
The more than one thousand members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America nominated their favorite fantasy short stories within strict guidelines: written between 1939 and 1990, and no more than 17,500 words. No author could be represented by more than one story. Ballots were cast and the thirty winners appear in this collection. The timelessness of fantasy is once again proven here; stories written in the '40s have as much power and relevance as those from the '80s. Three different werewolf stories demonstrate the different uses a skilled storyteller can make of the same basic idea. In James Blish's There Shall Be No Darkness, the werewolf is the usual ravenous creature that must be destroyed before he kills even more people, but Poul Anderson in Operation Afreet and Anthony Boucher in The Compleat Werewolf describe weres who work for the good guys. Boucher's werewolf winds up becoming a G-man after discovering that beauty is really only skin deep. Comparing this volume to Weis and Hickman's recent Treasures of Fantasy (HarperPrism, 1997/VOYA December 1997) shows that this one has more early stories. There are two stories here from the '30s, four from the '40s, seven from the '50s, and six from the '60s, with a total of nineteen written before 1970. Weis and Hickman have a more recent collection including seven stories from the '90s. Only six authors have stories in both books, and only Lafferty's Narrow Valley appears in both. The quality is equally high and libraries need both books. VOYA Codes: 4Q 2P S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses, For the YA with a special interest in the subject, Senior High-defined as grades 10 to 12).
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780877955214
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/1/1983
  • Pages: 431

Table of Contents

Introduction
Trouble with Water 1
Nothing in the Rules 21
Fruit of Knowledge 47
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 77
The Compleat Werewolf 91
The Small Assassin 137
The Lottery 153
Our Fair City 161
There Shall Be No Darkness 177
The Loom of Darkness 211
The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles 221
The Silken-Swift 225
The Golem 243
Operation Afreet 249
That Hell-Bound Train 277
The Bazaar of the Bizarre 289
Come Lady Death 311
The Drowned Giant 327
Narrow Valley 337
Faith of Our Fathers 349
The Ghost of a Model T 379
The Demoness 393
Jeffty Is Five 405
The Detective of Dreams 423
Unicorn Variations 439
Basileus 461
The Jaguar Hunter 477
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight 501
Bears Discover Fire 527
Tower of Babylon 537
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