Modern Classics of Fantasy

By: Gardner R. Dozois

Book Overview

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heyday with 33 masterpieces of short fiction ranging from the 1940s to today. Contributors include L. Sprague de Camp, H.L. Gold, Manly Wade Wellman,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312169310
• ISBN13: 9780312169312
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

An extensive tome, closing on the 700 page mark, so fine value. A good anthology, too, for fantasy, averaging 3.52. There is a fairly extensive, useful introduction where the editor goes over the history of the fantasy story and fantasy publishing, partially seen through the lens of his own reading in his younger days - mentioning for instance that it was a fantasy magazine that he looked forward to the most, and anything in cheap paperback as hardbacks were out of range. That there was pre-Tolkien fantasy reader interest, etc. So, pretty good work. There's also a shortish selection at the end of some other work to look for, if interested. As with the Modern Classics of Science Fiction here, Dozois wants to reprint some of the not so commonly found stories, along with the others, and some of his favorites - allowing that to influence his selecting. Definitely a good book to get. Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Trouble with Water - Horace L. Gold Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Gnarly Man - L. Sprague deCamp Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Golem - Avram Davidson Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Walk Like a Mountain - Manly Wade Wellman Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Extempore - Damon Knight Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Space-Time for Springers - Fritz Leiber Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Scylla's Daughter - Fritz Leiber Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Overworld - Jack Vance Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Signaller - Keith Roberts Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Manor of Roses - Thomas Burnett Swarm Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Death and the Executioner - Roger Zelazny Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Configuration of the North Shore - R. A. Lafferty Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Two Sadnesses - George Alec Effinger Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Tale of Hauk - Poul Anderson Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight - Avram Davidson Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Troll - T.H. White Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Sleep of Trees - Jane Yolen Modern Classics Of Fantasy : God's Hooks! - Howard Waldrop Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - Lucius Shepard Modern Classics Of Fantasy : A Cabin on the Coast - Gene Wolfe Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Paper Dragons - James P. Blaylock Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Into Gold - Tanith Lee Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Flowers of Edo - Bruce Sterling Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight - Ursula K. Le Guin Modern Classics Of Fantasy : A Gift of the People - Robert Sampson Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Missolonghi 1824 - John Crowley Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Blunderbore - Esther M. Friesner Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Death and the Lady - Judith Tarr Modern Classics Of Fantasy : The Changeling's Tale - Michael Swanwick Modern Classics Of Fantasy : Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros - Peter S. Beagle Modern