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Overview
What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?
We can all imagine such “other worlds”be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonderbut it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volumeuntil now.
John Joseph Adams, the editor that brought you Wastelands and Brave New Worlds, delivers another landmark anthology that is a must have for any discerning genre reader.
We can all imagine such “other worlds”be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonderbut it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volumeuntil now.
John Joseph Adams, the editor that brought you Wastelands and Brave New Worlds, delivers another landmark anthology that is a must have for any discerning genre reader.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781597804332 |
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Publisher: | Night Shade |
Publication date: | 06/26/2012 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 568,662 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author

John Joseph Adams is the best-selling editor of anthologies such as The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Armored, and Under the Moons of Mars. He lives in Lompoc, CA.
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