After publishing “The
Solaris Book of New Fantasy” edited by George
Mann in 2007, Solaris Books will release on May a new anthology of fantasy
fiction, edited by Jonathan Strahan
and entitled “Fearsome Journeys: The New
Solaris Book of Fantasy”. “The Solaris Book of New Fantasy” was a very
strong anthology, featuring stories by some of the best authors of speculative
fiction such as Conrad Williams, Steven Erikson, Lucius Shepard, Mark
Chadbourn, Hal Duncan or Jeff VanderMeer. That anthology is one
of the perfect examples of what magic and power fantasy fiction can hold. It is
one of the numerous reasons for which I love the genre with passion. But there
are plenty of other reasons for which I love fantasy with passion and among
them I can count Elizabeth Bear, Trudi Canavan, Daniel Abraham, Jeffrey Ford
or Glen Cook, authors who will havestories in the upcoming Jonathan Strahan’s “Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris
Book of Fantasy”. And when the collection is described as “an anthology of adventure fantasy, with a slight emphasis on military
fantasy and swords and sorcery” I guess I can’t ask for more. But I do must
admit, this anthology had me at K.J.
Parker, one of the most talented authors of the genre and one of my top
favorite writers.
The order in the table of contents is not definitive
and subject to change:
Introduction by
Jonathan Strahan
“The Effigy Engine:
A Tale of the Red Hats” by Scott Lynch
“Amethyst, Shadow,
and Light” by Saladin Ahmed
“Camp Follower” by
Trudi Canavan
“The Dragonslayer of
Merebarton” by K J Parker
“leaf and branch and
grass and vine” by Kate Eliot
“Spirits of Salt: A
Tale of the Coral Sword” by Jeffrey Ford
“Forever People” by
Robert V S Redick
“Sponda the Suet
Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl” by Ellen Klages
“Shaggy Dog Bridge:
A Black Company Story” by Glen Cook
“The Ghost Makers”
by Elizabeth Bear
“One Last, Great
Adventure” by Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce
“The
High King Dreaming” by Daniel Abraham
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to snagging this collection when it comes out. I don't always agree with Jonathan Strahan's selections but he consistently puts out high quality anthologies.
I don't believe I've read any of Parker's work. I did download a KJ Parker book to my Kindle that was up free the other day, Farewell Horizontal is its name, I believe.
Lots of great authors on this list and some I'll be reading for the first time.
Carl, K.J. Parker has a unique voice and one of my favorite writers because of it.
I read only one anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and indeed it was very good. I am looking forward to see what it makes with this one, because you are right, there are some great authors on the line-up.
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