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Overview: Bursting with the same magic that has brought a whole new following to fantasy, this anthology combines the excitement of the Harry Potter phenomenon with the appeal of Lord of the Rings, the ingenuity of the Discworld series and the adventure of the Conan stories. It features a range of light and dark fantasies – from quests, games and monsters, to wizards, witches, dark spells and even darker secrets – all obsessed with the use of magic in this world or the next.
Mike Ashley’s masterly selection includes such precursors of the Potter series as ‘The Sleuth-Worm’ by Edith Nesbit, ‘The Wall around the World’ by Theodore Cogswell, ‘Ged’s Apprenticeship’ by Ursula K. Le Guin and others that deal with the discovery of magic or apprenticeship into magic by ordinary folk. With plenty of specially commissioned new stories, it all adds up to a spellbinding bumper volume in which contributors include: Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, John Morressy, Theodore Sturgeon, John Jakes, Patricia McKillip, Esther Friesner, Louise Cooper, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Tom Holt and Charles de Lint.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Foreword: Spellbound, Mike Ashley
Ten Things I Know about the Wizard, Steve Rasnic Tem
Villaggio Sogno, Richard A. Lupoff
The Game of Magical Death, Doug Hornig
The Infestation, Tom Holt
The Sage of Theare, Diana Wynne Jones
Timekeeper, John Morressy
The Double Shadow, Clark Ashton Smith
The Rite Stuff, Michael Kurland
Master of Chaos, Michael Moorcock
Seven Drops of Blood, Robert Weinberg
To Become a Sorcerer, Darrell Schweitzer
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince, Ralph Adams Cram
The Bones of the Earth, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Closed Window, A.C. Benson
Disillusioned, Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick
In the Realm of Dragons, Esther M. Friesner
Forever, Tim Lebbon
The Wizard of Ashes and Rain, David Sandner
The Walker Behind, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Last Witch, James Bibby
Last Rites, Louise Cooper
The Eternal Altercation, Peter Crowther
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