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There were a lot of fables in this collection, with a ton of different definitions of fable.The second-to-last in the collection is a fun metacommentary on the rest, rewarding reading the collection up to that point.
Another solid anthology product from Stoneskin Press. If you haven't been reading of their collections, I strongly recommend you do so.This particular collection consists of modern retellings of a variety of myth/folk/fairy tales and fables. I admit, I was not as engaged as I expected to be, in part because I expected something maybe a little more along the lines that Yolen, McKinley, and others have done in retelling fairy tales as short stories or even novellas/novels. This is not that. These
An enjoyable collection of quick, punchy fables. Updated for modern times, with stories of zombies and internet trolls scattered among the typical anthropomorphic animals, generally relating a moral.Edited by game designer and writer Robin Laws, the author list includes a number of writers from Robin's native Canada, as well as a number of other game designers, such as Ed Greenwood (Forgotten Realms), Sandy Peterson (Call of Cthulhu), and John Kovalic (Dork Tower).
not all stories were good. I liked most but some were pretty bad.
A vast and eclectic collection of short stories updating Aesop's style for the information age. Talking foxes, weasels and carp use mobile phones, troll the internet and drive cars. Every cautionary fable has a moral for modern times, though some are more explicit than others. Not all of these tales work, but there are some stunning pieces here (too many good ones to list). Editor Robin Laws' introduction is an erudite and comprehensive examination of the enduring value - necessity even - of Aes...
This book delivers exactly what it says on the cover: 70 writers contribute their own "modern fable". How much you enjoy this is probably going to come down to how you feel about fables.What is a fable, in your mind? What do you want to get out of reading one? And, maybe this is the key point, how much we can't think of literally any other fables besides Aesop's?This is what Wikipedia has to sayIn Classical times there were various theorists who tried to differentiate these fables from other kin...
