The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume Two

by Paula Guran (Editor)

Overview

Prepare to embark on yet another fantastic adventure with award-winning fantasy editor Paula Guran. Delve into realms that exceed the limits of your imagination and embrace the surreal! Twenty-eight tales ranging from wonderful to wicked fill the pages of the second volume in The Year's Best Fantasy series. From lore and legends to myths and fables of alternative realities, you will discover bewitchment with the turn of every page. The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume 2 has something for every fantasy lover, representing a diverse array of accomplished talent from around the world, and perhaps beyond. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645060512
Publisher:	Start Publishing Llc
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Series:	The Year's Best Fantasy , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Paula Guran is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner. In addition to scores of novels and several single-author collections, she has edited more than forty published anthologies, including Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women and Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold. She lives in Akron, Ohio.

Dina Pearlman is an actress and audiobook narrator who has lent her voice to Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife series, Jeanne C. Stein’s Vampire for Hire series, and C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur series. She has appeared in a number of television series and movies and has performed at the renowned Moth storytelling theater. She currently resides in New York City.

Perry Daniels is an award-winning, classically trained actor from Atlanta, Georgia, with over a decade of experience on stage, screen, and lurking mysteriously behind the microphone of his home studio. An audiobook junkie and mimic with a love of dialects, Perry strives to bring sincerity, energy, depth, and a focus on performance to his narration.

Editorial Reviews

★ 06/26/2023

Guran (editor of The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy) draws from a worldwide well of fantasy stories for this admirably wide-ranging anthology, inviting readers to marvel at a truly magical carpet in Tanvir Ahmed’s “The Miraculous Account of Khaja Bairaq, Pennant-Saint of Zabel” or share a meal on a postcolonial Pacific island in “Love Heart Soup” by Wen-Yi Lee. Largely eschewing the epic, Guran gathers tales of romance, likely (in Lavie Tidhar’s “The Portal Keeper”) or not (per J.A. Pak’s “The Gentle Dragon Tells His Tale of Love”); family, both together (Priya Sharma’s “The Short History of My Mother”) and fractured (Elizabeth Bear’s “The Part You Throw Away”); and escape, whether from dancing skeletons (James Enge’s “The Hunger”) or from the rut of daily routine (“The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse” by Isabel J. Kim). Even the more traditional stories invert convention; elves role-play about office politics and email in Max Gladstone’s “To Make Unending” while Sam J. Miller brings unexpected pathos to the saga of a secondhand couch in “Sun in an Empty Room.” Full of enchantments and surprises, this is a treasure trove. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

This book has something for every fantasy lover, representing a diverse array of accomplished talent from around the world, and perhaps beyond.

BookReporter

Full of enchantments and surprises, this is a treasure trove.

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