The Year's Best Fantasy

by Paula Guran (Editor)

Overview

Award-winning fantasy editor Paula Guran invites you to join an array of accomplished authors on an extraordinary and enchanting expedition. Seventeen fantastical stories weave a wonderful web of magic, revelation, and of course, adventure. The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume Three explores alternative realities that mirror a world much like our own, yet push the limits of one's imagination. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! This is a collection of tales fantasy fanatics won't want to miss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645061038
Publisher:	Start Publishing Llc
Publication date:	08/20/2024
Series:	The Year's Best Fantasy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	406
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Freelance editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran was senior editor for Prime Books for seven years. Previously, she edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. In addition to the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series, she’s edited many other anthologies. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications.

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