Jack Vance
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Drawing on Fantasy & Science Fiction's vast history of classic and contemporary stories, an anthology revisits and expands upon 65 years' worth of the best fiction and explores such themes as alternate history, time travel, urban fantasy, cyberpunk, modern myth, space opera and more.--NoveList Plus.com
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"Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive survey of fantasy fiction from around the globe, this companion volume to The Big Book of Classic Fantasy takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies,...
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"'When the adventurers first arrive in the village, they can already hear whispers of the strange and terrible happenings in the ruins of the nearby hills…' Drawing upon Gary Gygax’s list of 'inspirational reading' in the original 1979 Dungeon Masters Guide, Appendix N presents a selection of short fiction and resonant fragments that shaped the world’s most popular role playing game. Rippling flesh, fiendish beasts and chasmic horrors populate...
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"The oceans of Earth have stirred the imagination of humankind from prehistory to the present day. What exotic lands might lie across those vast watery realms—and what strange things might lie hidden beneath them? Science fiction has explored those domains in the imagination of writers from Jules Verne to H.G. Wells to H.P. Lovecraft and present day writers. And if the oceans of this planet fire the imagination, what of possible oceans on other...