Peter S. Beagle, Jacob Weisman: The new voices of fantasy (2017)
325 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2017
"In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have arrived. The [book] captures some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years, including Sofia Samatar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Brooke Bolander, E. Lily Yu, Ben Loory, Ursula Vernon, and more"--Amazon.com.
Gemischt natürlich, aber die meisten Geschichten mochte ich sehr gern. Und es ist die beste Zeitreisegeschichte drin, die ich je gelesen habe.
A fine collection of stories that are various flavors of clever and creepy.
This is a book of "new" short fantasy stories ("new" because some of them are actually 5+ years old, so I'm a little unclear what cut-off age was used for the selection). I picked it up because there's a short story by Ursula Vernon, whose books I've been enjoying recently. This short story turned out to be good though a little dark.
Overall I found the selection a bit mixed. There were some excellent stories but also quite a few that just didn't seem to have a satisfactory ending. Leaving the story completely open-ended so the reader has no idea what actually just happened can occasionally be interesting and thought-provoking, but more than once in a collection of just 19 stories is excessive.
Liked most: "The Duck", "The Pauper Prince", "The Haunting of Apollo A7LB". Liked least: "Left the Century to Sit Unmoved", "My Time Among the Bridge Blowers".
