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| FICTION About My Fiction Stories in Print Anthologies The philosophy driving my anthologies is simply take an intelligent (if occasionally[?] obscure) premise and see what talented writers make of it. I seek variety in genre and will even bend genre until it -- almost -- breaks. (There is even nonfiction forthcoming in the Maine SF & F anthology, and I'm not talking about the introduction.) The First Heroes presents the reader with a all-new smorgasbord of style and subgenre, from Gene Wolfe's erudite time travel and Gregory Feeley's post-9/11 exploration of history to the slash-em-up adventure of S. M. Stirling and comic epic poetry of Larry Hammer. As I have anthologies open to submission, I will post the news here. Meanwhile, if you need an editor, or are curious about previous or forthcoming anthologies, e-mail me as TheAnthologist. |
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 NEW from Down East Books: Otherworldly Maine (formerly That Mysterious Door: Maine Tales of Fantasy & Speculation) edited by Noreen Doyle ISBN 0-8927-27462 trade paperback 320 pages list price: $15.95 Edgar Pangborn: "Longtooth" Tom Tolnay: "The Hermit Genius of Marshville" Daniel Hatch: "Bass Fishing with the Enemy" John P. O'Grady: "Dreams of Virginia Dare" Elizabeth Hand: "Echo" Stephen King: "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" Edward Kent: "A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century" Jeff Hecht: "By the Lake" Gregory Feeley: "Awskonomuk" Melanie Tem: "The County" Lee Allred: "And Dream Such Dreams" Gardner Dozois: "Flash Point" Mark Twain: "The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton" Lucy Suitor Holt: "Trophy Seekins" Scott Thomas: "The Autumn of Sorrows" Karen Jordan Allen: "Alternate Anxieties" Noreen Doyle: "The Chapter of the Hawk of Gold" Tom Easton: "The Bung-Hole Caper" Jack L. Chalker: "Dance Band on the Titanic" Jessica Reisman: "When the Ice Goes Out" Steve Rasnic Tem: "Creation Story" |
Visit the home page (in progress) of the forthcoming anthology OTHERWORLDLY MAINE "Otherworldly Maine unites modern stories with classics to present a picture you will find nowhere else.... I recommend this book wholeheartedly." --Gene Wolfe
"a fascinating glimpse at one of the oldest, coldest, strangest places in the United States that ever was, ever might have been, and even ever wasn't." --Harry Turtledove
"Who knew Maine has so many weird, mysterious, and wonderful stories?" --Jane Yolen
"a collection of darkly imaginative stories that evoke the state's eerie bogs, deep woods, and the spirit of its most famous writer, Stephen King." --Boston.com/Boston Globe
(14 September 2008) "highly recommended to personal, academic, community library metaphysical studies collections and supplemental reading lists on Maine's state history." -- California Bookwatch
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 The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age edited by Harry Turtledove and Noreen Doyle Tor Books 2004 ISBN 0-7653-0287-X trade paperback 368 pages list price: $14.95 From the cover: The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stories to the Third Age of Middle-earth. Now bestselling SF and fantasy author Harry Turtledove, a noted expert on the ancient world, teams up with author and Egyptologist Noreen Doyle to present fourteen new tales of the real Bronze Age from some of the best writers in SF. Gene Wolfe: "The Lost Pilgrim" Brenda Clough: "How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei" Judy Tarr: "The God of Chariots" Harry Turtledove: "The Horse of Bronze" Josepha Sherman: "A Hero for the Gods" S. M. Stirling: "Blood Wolf" Noreen Doyle: "Ankhtifi the Brave is dying." Katharine Kerr & Debra Doyle: "The God Voice" Karen Jordan Allen: "Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu" Larry Hammer: "The Myrmidons" Gregory Feeley: "Giliad" Laura Frankos: "The Sea Mother's Gift" Lois Tilton: "The Matter of the Ahhiyans" Poul Anderson: "The Bog Sword" |
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the critically-acclaimed anthology
THE FIRST HEROES New Tales of the Bronze Age #3 in Amazon's Top 10 Editors' Picks of Science Fiction and Fantasy 2004 #8 in SF Site's Top 10 Editors' Choice of Science Fiction and Fantasy 2004 nominee for the 2005 World Fantasy Award (best anthology) one of Locus's Recommended Anthologies for 2004 on the ballot for the 2005 Locus Poll "The 14 all-original historical fantasy stories compiled here by Turtledove and Doyle all confirm the opinion voiced by one character that 'History isn't melodrama. It's tragedy.'" ". . . most have an elegiac tone appropriate for tales about heroes aware of the transience of glory and about ordinary mortals struggling to understand the whims of the gods. " ". . . beautiful and durable artifacts. " --
Publishers Weekly (5 April 2004)
"Here are 14 intelligent tales. . . . Kudos to a book to
which
lovers of historical fiction, fantastic and not, should be directed."
-- Booklist (15 April 2004)
"splendid variety of creative direction... complex overlay of universal
tragedy... plentiful barbaric splendor... certainly joins the list of
major anthologies appearing in 2004."
-- Locus (May 2004) |
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