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Book Review: Best American Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer and Matthew Cheney
Book Review: Best American Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer and Matthew Cheney
Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book reviews. The first thing that stands out is that if I merely stuck to looking for fantasy stories from the usual sources, I probably wouldn't have come across many of the short stories in this anthology. And that I think is the ...
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Ecstatic Days — ... in “the international issue” and she will also be appearing at the special Oct. 15th Weird Tales KGB bar reading in NYC (Jeff Ford, Karen Hueler, etc.) to do introductions and be her cool, wonderful self. Recent Reviews, Interviews, Etc. An interview with Ann and me about Steampunk just ran on PopMatters. Also, my review of Anathem by Stephenson appeared on the Barnes & Noble site. The Bib Stalker has an interesting review of the first Best American Fantasy. Finally, Underland ...

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