Bedlam's Edge (Bedlam's Bard)
Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre - where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modem city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new...
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Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre - where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modem city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar line up of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxson, and more-including two new stories and an after world by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a new story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416508939 (1416508937)
Publish date: August 2nd 2005
Publisher: Baen Books,U.S.
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Bedlam's Bard (#8)
Using Mercedes Lackey's series of Elven Urban Fantasy as a springboard this is a series of stories by several authors using this as a springboard. It's a mixed bag of stories many of them quite interesting. A fan of her series would love it, others might like it as an idea of what her world is lik...
As it so often happens with short story collections by different authors, this one was very uneven. There were stories that I would rate as 5, others as 1 - overall, a 3 seems a fair rating for the book as a whole.
I will go through and discuss a little about each of the stories, since I was organized this time, and jotted down notes regularly as I read this collection. One comment I have is that this anthology assumes that the reader has read a Bedlam novel before. You can read and enjoy this separately, bu...
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