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The Secret History of Fantasy

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Introduction / Peter S. Beagle -- Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh -- Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire -- Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip -- We are Norsemen / T.C. Boyle -- Barnum Museum / Steven Millhauser -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson -- Bones / Francesca Lia Block -- Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman -- Fruit and words / Aimee Bender -- Empire of ice cream / Jeffrey Ford -- Edge of the world / Michael Swanwick -- Super goat man / Jonathan Lethem -- John Uskglass and the cumbrian charcoal burner / Susanna Clarke -- Book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler -- Vita Æterna Mirror Company / Yann Martel -- Sleight of hand / Peter S. Beagle -- Mythago wood / Robert Holdstock -- 26 monkeys, also the abyss / Kij Johnson -- Appendix 1: The critics, the monsters, and the fantasists / Ursula LeGuin -- Appendix 2: The making of the American fantasy genre / David G. Hartwell.
Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!

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PUBLISHED
San Francisco, CA : Tachyon, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 379 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781892391995 (pbk.)
1892391996 (pbk.)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Beagle, Peter S.

SUBJECTS
Fantasy fiction, American.
American fiction -- 20th century.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Short stories.