Fantasy: The Best of 2001 - ed. Robert Silverberg, ed. Karen Haber

Written by ed. Robert Silverberg, ed. Karen Haber
Read by Harlan Ellison, Iris Bahr, Scott Brick, Jason Cole, Gabriel De Cuir, Terry Fishman, Roxanne Hernandez, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stefan Rudnicki, M. E. Willis, William Windom
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Fantasy: The Best of 2001
Edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber
Read by Harlan Ellison, Iris Bahr, Scott Brick, Jason Cole, Gabriel De Cuir, Terry Fishman, Roxanne Hernandez, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stefan Rudnicki, M. E. Willis & William Windom
Encode: mp3 - 128kbps, Stereo, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 11
Total Play time: 10:23:54

Anthology #146
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Book Description

This release features edgy new stories by hot new talents, and old favorites. Silverberg and Haber say it best: “The present anthology is intended to show reach and range as it is demonstrated nowadays in the shorter forms of fiction.” You will find very little that is formulaic here, although we have not ignored any of fantasy’s great traditions. There are stories set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern readers are accustomed, and others rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, and several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. There are philosophical and theological speculations. There is even one science-fiction story — although one that carries scientific thinking to a fantastic extreme — by way of showing that science-fiction, rather than being a genre apart, is simply one of the many branches of fantasy literature. These stories — which we think are the best short fantasies published in 2001 — are reassuring proof of fantasy’s eternal power even in this technological age.”

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber
02) Grass by Lawrence Miles
03) Diving the Coolidge by Brian A. Hopkins
04) The Lady of the Winds by Poul Anderson
05) Wolves Till the World Goes Down by Greg van Eekhout
06) Ave de Paso by Catherine Asaro
07) The Mould of Form by Rosemary Edghill
08) Slipshod, at the Edge of the Universe by Robert Thurston
09) Legerdemain by Jack O’Connell
10) The Bones of the Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin
11) Eternity and Afterward by Lucius Shepard