The Fantasy & Science Fiction Book of Unicorns by Gordon Van Gelder (ed.) (#1-#2)
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Overview: Gordon Van Gelder (born 1966) is an American science fiction editor. From 1997 until 2014, Van Gelder was editor and later publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, for which he has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form. He was also a managing editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1993, for which he was nominated for the Hugo Award a number of times. As of January 2015, Van Gelder has stepped down as editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction in favour of Charles Coleman Finlay, but remains publisher of the magazine.
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Story Anthology
The Fantasy & Science Fiction Book of Unicorns: Volume One
Two would-be hunters enlist an innkeeper to track a priest who knows the secret of the last unicorn. A time traveler must corral an unruly mythological beast that might never have existed at all. Claiming to have escaped from the zoo, a unicorn befriends young Billy before embarking upon on a killing spree. A dying woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend ally to find a miraculous remedy in New York City. A small-town writer of historical romances discovers a sliver of a mysterious horn in a slice of apple pie.
Contents:
“The Silken-Swift” by Theodore Sturgeon
“The Flight of the Horse” by Larry Niven
“Braid of Days and Wake of Nights” by E. Lily Yu
“Billy and the Unicorn” by Terry Bisson
“The Final Quarry” by Eric Norden
“The Sacrifice” by Gardner Dozois
“Hunting a Unicorn” by Vered Tochterman
“How to Make Unicorn Pie” by Esther M. Friesner
The Fantasy & Science Fiction Book of Unicorns: Volume Two
Three unicorns and a great lady living in a garden are swept away by a transformative flood. A man with a surgically-implanted diagnostic hardware finds that he is turning into something no longer human. Olfert Dapper—a seventeenth century Dutch writer, physician, and expert charlatan—finds a lovely reason to mend his ways. A unicorn hunter relates tips and tales from several of his fallen comrades. A boy home from school in Indiana finds a mysterious piece of pointed ivory, almost but not quite like an elephant’s tusk.
Contents:
“The Black Horn” by Jack Dann
“Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera” by Mike Resnick
“Sportsman’s Difficulty” by Doris Pitkin Buck
“The Lady’s Garden” by Jane Yolen
“Mythological Beast” by Stephen R. Donaldson
“The Unicorn Trade” by Karen Anderson
“Olfert Dapper’s Day” by Peter S. Beagle
“Miracle on Main Street" by Robert Arthur
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