The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman Ellen Kushner published Swordspoint in 1987. It gathered a swarm of fans who loved the prose, the magicless world with its glittering veneer and cloak-and-dagger intrigue, and the love story at its center. Readers clamored to know more of steadfast, enigmatic swordsman Richard St.Vier […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 2 | Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Through a Brazen Mirror by Delia Sherman Through a Brazen Mirror is the sort of book that deserves a wider audience than it’s gotten so far. The author is a lesbian, and the book contains a gay character. Since mainstream publishers are still a little squeamish about such things, this book gets the label “Queer […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Delia Sherman | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman Years ago, I got into “fantasies of manners” at about the same time as I was going through a big Revolutionary France phase. When I heard about Delia Sherman’s The Porcelain Dove (1993) — a fantasy set in that time period, and which won the Mythopoeic Award for 1994 […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Delia Sherman | Mythopoeic Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
The FIREBIRDS anthologies edited by Sharyn November Firebirds is the first of the three FIREBIRD anthologies edited by Sharyn November. Some people don’t like short stories, especially in anthologies where you are reading several different authors. I, however, almost always have a volume of short stories on my bedside table. Even if I manage to get no other […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | Delia Sherman, Diana Wynne Jones, Emma Bull, Garth Nix, Kara Dalkey, Lloyd Alexander, Megan Whalen Turner, Meredith Ann Pierce, Nancy Farmer, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia McKillip, Sherwood Smith | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Changeling by Delia Sherman Neef wants desperately to go on an adventure of her own, alike to the ones she hears about in fairy tales, and that’s just what she gets when she’s kidnapped by the fairy. From being banished by the Green Lady, genius of central park, to a wild ride on the pooka, […]
Read MoreSkye Walker´s rating: 3.5 | Delia Sherman | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman What is it about Maine? Stephen King and John Connolly both write terrifying horror stories set there, and Delia Sherman places The Evil Wizard Smallbone, a middle-grade fantasy published in 2016, in Maine in the winter. That state must have a lot of magical juice. The Evil Wizard […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Delia Sherman | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
Fantasy Magazine was folded into Lightspeed Magazine in 2012, but it came out of retirement in October 2014 for the Women Destroy Fantasy issue, one of the stretch goals of a Kickstarter for an all-women edition of Lightspeed. I was one of the contributors to the Kickstarter, and, as my review last week revealed, I […]
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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (eds.) Ruby Slippers, Golden Tearsis the third in the series of fairy tale anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. It’s a very good collection; in quality it’s probably equal to its immediate predecessor, Black Thorn, White Rose, though I didn’t personally like it […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Anne Bishop, Delia Sherman, Ellen Datlow, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Terri Windling | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Black Heart, Ivory Bones edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling Black Heart, Ivory Bones is the sixth and final entry in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s series of fairy tale anthologies. Of the six, I’ve read four, and each has its own particular flavor, its own unique mood. While all of the books contain […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 5 | Charles De-Lint, Delia Sherman, Ellen Datlow, Esther Friesner, Jane Yolen, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Tanith Lee, Terri Windling | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Green Man edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling In fairy tales, whenever someone journeys into the forest, you just know something strange is about to occur and that the protagonist’s life is going to be changed forever. The same is true of the stories and poems featured in The Green Man: Tales from […]
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Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are the two greatest short fiction editors of fantasy and horror of our time. Their annual collections of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror provided us, for 16 straight years, with the best short genre and slipstream […]
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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 In many ways, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 anthology is a difficult book to review. For one thing, to me and a lot of my reading/writing circle, this is easily the definitive bible when it comes to short stories of the genre. For another, many of […]
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The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales is another thematic fantasy anthology by the trio of Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, and Charles Vess. Coyote Road features twenty-six pieces of fiction and poetry. Each story is preceded by art by Vess and ends with a short […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 3.5 | Charles De-Lint, Delia Sherman, Ellen Datlow, Holly Black, Jeffrey Ford, Kelly Link, Terri Windling | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 For me, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 has been a two-headed beast. On one hand, it’s an eagerly anticipated book by people involved in the industry, usually for the summation at the front of the book and the honorable mentions list at the back. The various […]
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Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling Fairy tales were my first love when I was a child. My mother introduced me to the joys of stories with The Golden Book of Fairy Tales long before I learned how to read. My early reading included the first […]
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling The Faery Reel is an indispensable tome for anyone who has a mania for faeries. Aside from the short stories in this anthology, the comprehensive introduction of Terri Windling on the fey and the illustrations by Charles Vess are worth […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 5 | Delia Sherman, Ellen Datlow, Gregory Frost, Holly Black, Jeffrey Ford, Terri Windling | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (eds.) Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories is a new young adult collection edited by veteran anthologists Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. Featuring twelve conventional short stories and two graphic entries, Steampunk! showcases a wide variety […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Delia Sherman, Garth Nix, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, Ysabeau S. Wilce | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran Things you should know: 1. This is a reprint anthology. If you read a lot of anthologies in the field, you will probably have read some of these before. I had read three, though two of them were among the best ones, and I enjoyed reading them […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan | A.C. Wise, Alan Dean Foster, Amanda Downum, Angela Slatter, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles De-Lint, Christopher Barzak, Delia Sherman, Diana Peterfreund, Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Holly Black, Jim Butcher, John Shirley, Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Kress, Nisi Shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Patricia Briggs, Scott Lynch, Simon R. Green | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
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