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Honestly, I didn't finish this book. I honestly tried, but the stories really didn't grab me.
I was pleasantly surprised -- I hadn't read anything called "fantasy" in years, and that's the main reason my expectations were so...skewed. There were a handful of stories in here that I really LOVED, and most of them I quite liked, and I think I'll actually seek out and read the NEXT one in this series, whenever it comes out. Congrats to the editors and writers!
This is an incredible collection of stories.They sprawl across time and space and are endlessly inventive. Every story is compelling, impossible to set down yet every story is also incredibly different from each other. a remarkable feet. Grab this collection.
My favorites: "The Flying Woman," "Song of the Selkie," "Pieces of Scheherazade," "The Man Who Married a Tree," "A Fable with Slips of White Paper Slipping from the Pockets," "The Warehouse of the Saints," "The Ledge," "The End of Narrative (1-29; or 29-1)," and "An Accounting," which I read to my wife when she was ill and it cheered her up.
What I love about this collection is that it's not just genre fantasy (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, etc). Much of it - in fact, the majority of this collection - pulls from literary journals like One Story, Zoetrope, The Southern Review, A Public Space The New Yorker, etc. It's such a smart way to do a year's best-type collection, in my opinion, broadening the horizons of fantasy readers, genre and literary.Not sure why this collection is getting only 3.5
Why are there so many depressing stories in the world?Future self, you should know that you probably only stopped reading this book because you had so many others you would rather be reading checked out from the library which has a measly three week lending period.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the distinctions between literary and fantasy fiction lacked rigid outlines. Nothing typified this trend more than editor Judith Merrill's 12 volumes of The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, published from 1956 to 1968. Within her anthologies, such authors as John Graves, William S. Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and Gunther Grass routinely appeared alongside more readily identifiable genre writers. Since the mid-Eighties, "best of" fantasy publications have focu...
By some error, Goodreads seems to have conflated the first and second volumes of this series. My favorite stories from the first book are "The Saffron Gatherer" (Elizabeth Hand), "A Better Angel" (Chris Adrian), "First Kisses from beyond the Grave" (Nik Houser), "A Troop [sic] of Baboons" (Tyler Smith), "Origin Story" (Kelly Link), and "The Man Who Married a Tree" (Terry D'Souza).---------------------------------A month after my first posting and I just read the second volume. My favorites here
my sister has a story published in this one, everyone should buy this
