February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy
FEBRUARY THAW is the second e-collection by Tanya Huff and brings together some of the short fiction that helped define the field. From an Imperial Dragon in Toronto's Chinatown, to a heavy metal retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, to the realization that the ancient gods are one highly...
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FEBRUARY THAW is the second e-collection by Tanya Huff and brings together some of the short fiction that helped define the field. From an Imperial Dragon in Toronto's Chinatown, to a heavy metal retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, to the realization that the ancient gods are one highly dysfunctional family, Huff skews our world slightly sideways. These seven stories, each with a brand new introduction by the author, remind us that the weird and the wonderful is all around us if we only bother to look.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B006OEMUAE
Publish date: December 19th 2011
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
This is an entertaining collection of severn urban fantasy short stories, involving everything from a street wizard, Chinese guardian dragons, fairy tale retellings and a dysfunctional ancient Greek deity family (which was really rather sweet at the end).
The stories have appeared in various other collections, but I haven't read most of them. Just two. The title story, about a marriage problem in Hades, is aboslutely wonderful. However, I LOVE the retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk complete with attack on manufactured bands. The story about a dr...
Another solid collection, though not quite as enjoyable as the first.
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