Unnatural Creatures

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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Gaiman, Neil, Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Unnatural creatures
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Gaiman, Neil	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Unnatural creatures	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Unnatural creatures	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024

"A number of stories featuring unnatural creatures along with several other creatures who are either unlikely, impossible, or do not exist at all."
* / Gahan Wilson -- The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees / E. Lily Yu -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Ozioma the Wicked / Nnedi Okorafor -- Sunbird / Neil Gaiman -- The Sage of Theare / Diana Wynne Jones -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby / E. Nesbit -- Moveable Beast / Maria Dahvana Headley -- The Flight of the Horse / Larry Niven -- Prismatica / Samuel R. Delany -- The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me / Megan Kurashige -- The Compleat Werewolf / Anthony Boucher -- The Smile on the Face / Nalo Hopkinson -- Or All the Seas With Oysters / Avram Davidson -- Come Lady Death / Peter S. Beagle.

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Overall a good collection submitted by yugure on June 19, 2013, 3:01pm Overall a good collection of short stories by skilled writers.

WIlson's "*" has the most unique creature (which I will not name so I won't spoil it!), and I enjoyed that story the most. Yu's "The Cartographer Wasps" was beautifully written but a little bittersweet. I had read Jones's "The Sage of Theare" from her own collection of short stories and it's quite a good one, so don't miss it here. "Moveable Beast" by Headley was a little uneven in the writing, but I appreciate the surprising creature she uses.

I did not care for Gaiman's, which seemed a little distasteful to me, and Delany's "Prismatica" seemed to go on forever and ever and ever (and not in a good way). Boucher's Werewolf was a little too silly for my taste.

Unnatural Creatures submitted by lstorc on August 6, 2018, 4:28am A well thought-out collection