Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world. This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself.
Contents:
Xanadu and porlock, too / Jane Yolen --
Dairy queen / Shira Daemon --
The harmony / Paul Levinson --
Residual Flight / Richard Rowand --
Recent collections / Ruth Berman --
Mollusk dreams / Nancy Etchemendy --
Up the mountain / Sue Y. Wilson --
Fortune tellers / Laurie A. Taylor --
East of the sun and west of the moon / Claire P. Brown --
Witch watch / Anna Kirwan-Vogel --
The apple golem / Bruce H. Rogers --
Clay / Linda Mannheim --
Charon's wife / Julie Kinney --
Nvumbi / Steve R. Tem --
Tomorrow never knows / Mark A. Garland --
Xanadu / Christine Crow --
The man who loved the river / Jo Clayton --
The night journey / Terri Windling --
A report concerning the predator population in the northern part of the forest / Jeremy Beckett --
The champion / Tanith Lee --
Old woman who created life / Josepha Sherman --
Nettie's garden / Elise Matthesen --
King of crows / Midori Snyder --
Swan/Princess / Jane Yolen --
The lizard queen / Michelle Stone --
Two poems / Brenda D. Crank --
Jo's hair / Susan Palwick --
The hunter and the stag / Astrid Julian --
Mothballs / Marvin Bell --
Armdale rotary horse / Malcolm Beckett --
Word drift / Jeanette Ingold --
The Asgard philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture / Lawrence Schimel --
Gil / Dan Perez --
Gord and fnord go to the zoo / Charles Von Rospach --
Calliope / Micole Sudberg --
Your essential unsung hero / Nancy Kilpatrick.
Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world. This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself.
Contents:
Xanadu and porlock, too / Jane Yolen --
Dairy queen / Shira Daemon --
The harmony / Paul Levinson --
Residual Flight / Richard Rowand --
Recent collections / Ruth Berman --
Mollusk dreams / Nancy Etchemendy --
Up the mountain / Sue Y. Wilson --
Fortune tellers / Laurie A. Taylor --
East of the sun and west of the moon / Claire P. Brown --
Witch watch / Anna Kirwan-Vogel --
The apple golem / Bruce H. Rogers --
Clay / Linda Mannheim --
Charon's wife / Julie Kinney --
Nvumbi / Steve R. Tem --
Tomorrow never knows / Mark A. Garland --
Xanadu / Christine Crow --
The man who loved the river / Jo Clayton --
The night journey / Terri Windling --
A report concerning the predator population in the northern part of the forest / Jeremy Beckett --
The champion / Tanith Lee --
Old woman who created life / Josepha Sherman --
Nettie's garden / Elise Matthesen --
King of crows / Midori Snyder --
Swan/Princess / Jane Yolen --
The lizard queen / Michelle Stone --
Two poems / Brenda D. Crank --
Jo's hair / Susan Palwick --
The hunter and the stag / Astrid Julian --
Mothballs / Marvin Bell --
Armdale rotary horse / Malcolm Beckett --
Word drift / Jeanette Ingold --
The Asgard philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture / Lawrence Schimel --
Gil / Dan Perez --
Gord and fnord go to the zoo / Charles Von Rospach --
Calliope / Micole Sudberg --
Your essential unsung hero / Nancy Kilpatrick.