Xanadu - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031285367X ISBN 13: 9780312853679

Publisher: Tor Books, 1993

Synopsis

Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world.
This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself.

About this title

About the Author:

Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Nowegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille.

From Publishers Weekly:

This enjoyable collection inaugurates what seems likely to become a major annual showcase for previously unpublished short works of fantasy. Its most impressive feature is its broad range: editor Yolen ( Briar Rose ) convokes proven masters (Ursula K. Le Guin), the well-known (Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee) and newcomers (Elise Mattesen); she also includes genre writers (Steven K.Z. Brust, Pamela Dean) as well as mainstream writers (Robert Abel, Leslea Newman). The selections themselves vary in form from Donna Waidtlow's five-line poem "After Centuries" to Dean's novella "Owlswater," and they display an admirable diversity in atmosphere, tone, setting and subject matter too, together exploring the many possibilities under the umbrella "fantasy." Anna Kirwan-Vogel's "Jaguar Lord" is an enchanting heroic tale of a Mayan jaguar hunt; Will Shetterly's "Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage" is a tale of psychological horror; Lisa Tuttle's "Lucy Maria" adds a twist to a classic ghost-story plot. Though some of the pieces are slight, none are less than competent, and the standouts--among them Kress's "To Scale," Eleanor Arnason's "The Hound of Merin" and William Stafford's poem "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea"--deliver the pleasures of fantasy at its best. A promising start to an even more promising series.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 031285367X
• ISBN 13: 9780312853679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Yolen Jane