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    The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
    The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
    The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
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    The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy

    By Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman and

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    The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales!


    THE DEAD MAN, by Gene Wolfe

    BRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    THE DOLPHIN AND THE DEEP, by Thomas Burnett Swann

    THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Clive Jackson

    THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo

    SPACE-TIME FOR SPRINGERS, by Fritz Leiber

    RED NAILS, by Robert E. Howard

    ARMS AND THE WOMAN, by Lawrence Watt-Evans

    THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE, by Lord Dunsany

    THE WOMAN, by Tanith Lee

    DREAMTIME IN ADJAPHON, by John Gregory Betancourt

    THE BLACK ABBOT OF PUTHUUM, by Clark Ashton Smith

    BLACK HAWK OF VALKARTH, by Lin Carter

    THE DEVIL’S CRYPT, by E. Hoffmann Price

    VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS, by Darrell Schwetizer

    THE POWER OF PRAYER, by Brian Stableford
    THE SECRET OF KRALITZ, by Henry Kuttner

    LIGHT, by Achmed Abdullah

    THE LOST RACE, by Robert E. Howard
    RINGARD AND DENDRA, by Brian McNaughton

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781434448958
    The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
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    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

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