Conqueror Fantastic - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0756401917 ISBN 13: 9780756401917

Publisher: DAW, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of all original short stories rewrites history in thirteen works by Michelle West, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Alec Effinger, Ian Watson, and other notable authors who offer alternative fates for such historical figures as Hitler, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Saladin, and Alexander the Great. Original.

About this title

From Booklist

Editor Sargent asked this collection's contributors to choose "conquerors" from history or legend and imagine fantastic, and not purely historical, alternate careers for them. Their responses amount to a very odd lot of figures and developments. There are no fewer than three variations on Alexander the Great, who still seems to tower over the historical and mythic landscapes more than two millennia after his death. There are also Genghis Khan, legendary Japanese empress Jingu (in a story by Kij Johnson that is, not surprisingly, one of the best entries), Napoleon, Hitler, John Wayne, the Kennedy family, and Lyndon Johnson. All are developed originally, and the writing overall is high quality. Even so, however, at least half the stories are better read as very good intellectual exercises than as conventional narratives. Sexual sequences are rather numerous, and a few of them are undeniably, if appropriately, explicit. Without serious faults but definitely challenging. Frieda Murray
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About this edition

• Publisher: DAW
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0756401917
• ISBN 13: 9780756401917
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Sargent Pamela