Sails & Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy
Elaine Cunningham, James M. Ward, W. H. Horner (Editor),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Fantasist Enterprises
Elaine Cunningham, James M. Ward, W. H. Horner (Editor),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Fantasist Enterprises
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780971360891 (0971360898)
Publish date: August 1st 2007
Publisher: Fantasist Enterprises
Pages no: 420
Edition language: English
This is an anthology of 28 all new original fantasy stories all set in an age of sail. About half of them are set in the world we know, that is, could be called historical fantasy (and I found I tended to prefer these stories) and the other half are high fantasy. One Amazon reviewer described some o...
This was a good collection of stories that smoothly combine the seafaring/pirate theme with fantasy. I only disliked a couple of stories, although as a whole, I found the tone a bit on the dark side. I think the only upbeat story was by Patrick Thomas, and I would expect no less of him, since he al...
Solid and entertaining although some of the stories run together due to theme and other commonalities after a while. Part of the reason is this collection is quite long. But the writing is very strong, stories and characters interesting for the most part, and the authors' takes on the themes are uni...