The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
by Datlow, Ellen; Link, Kelly; Grant, GavinEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-08-01
Publisher(s): St. Martin's Press
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Summary
For more than a decade, readers have turned toThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horrorto find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field-- nearly four dozen stories, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol-style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror and Year's Best sections--on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge and on film and television by Edward Bryant. This is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror. *Terry Bisson *Kevin Brockmeier *Dan Chaon *Peter Crowther *Theodora Goss *Daphne Gottlieb *Glen Hirshberg *Brian Hodge *Nina Kiriki Hoffman *Kij Johnson *Paul LaFarge *Thomas Ligotti *Sara Maitland *Maureen F. McHugh *Steve Rasnic Tem *Benjamin Rosenbaum *Michael Marshall Smith *Michael Swanwick *Karen Traviss *Megan Whalen Turner
Author Biography
Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Lethal Kisses, Off Limits, and Endangered Species, and has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She has won and been nominated for the Stolker Award. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ("tiny, but celebrated"-Washington Post) for seven years. They live in an old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Kelly Link's first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in Conjunctions and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She is the editor of the anthology Trampoline and is currently working on more short stories.
Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant worked in bookshops in Los Angeles and Boston and BookSense.com a website for independent bookshops. He regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, Singularity, and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ("tiny, but celebrated"-Washington Post) for seven years. They live in an old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Kelly Link's first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in Conjunctions and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She is the editor of the anthology Trampoline and is currently working on more short stories.
Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant worked in bookshops in Los Angeles and Boston and BookSense.com a website for independent bookshops. He regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, Singularity, and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xiii | ||||
| Summation 2003: Fantasy | |||||
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xv | ||||
| Summation 2003: Horror | |||||
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xlix | ||||
| Media of the Fantastic: 2003 | |||||
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xciii | ||||
| Comics and Graphic Novels: 2003 | |||||
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cvii | ||||
| Anime and Manga: 2003 | |||||
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cxvii | ||||
| Music of the Fantastic: 2003 | |||||
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cxlv | ||||
| Obituaries: 2003 | |||||
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cli | ||||
| At the Mouth of the River of Bees | |||||
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1 | (15) | |||
| Why I Became a Plumber | |||||
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16 | ||||
| Bread and Bombs | |||||
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24 | (11) | |||
| The Red Bow | |||||
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35 | (9) | |||
| The Wife | |||||
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44 | (8) | |||
| Only Partly Here | |||||
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52 | (21) | |||
| Bone (poem) | |||||
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73 | (2) | |||
| Old Virginia | |||||
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75 | (17) | |||
| A Study in Emerald | |||||
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92 | (16) | |||
| You Go Where It Takes You | |||||
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108 | (11) | |||
| L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) | |||||
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119 | (8) | |||
| Harvey's Dream | |||||
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127 | (8) | |||
| Woeful Tales from Mahigul | |||||
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135 | (15) | |||
| King Rat | |||||
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150 | (5) | |||
| The Hortlak | |||||
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155 | (21) | |||
| With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu | |||||
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176 | (15) | |||
| Ash City Stomp | |||||
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191 | (10) | |||
| King Dragon | |||||
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201 | (30) | |||
| Invisible Geese: A Theory, The Perfect City (poems) | |||||
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231 | (4) | |||
| Bedfordshire | |||||
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235 | (20) | |||
| N0072-JK1 | |||||
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255 | (5) | |||
| Cell Call | |||||
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260 | (8) | |||
| The Fishie | |||||
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268 | (18) | |||
| Hunger: A Confession | |||||
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286 | (11) | |||
| Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe | |||||
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297 | (7) | |||
| The Baby in the Night Deposit Box | |||||
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304 | (14) | |||
| Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur | |||||
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318 | (14) | |||
| The Silence of the Falling Stars | |||||
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332 | (17) | |||
| At the Mythical Beast (poem) | |||||
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349 | (3) | |||
| The Fluted Girl | |||||
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352 | (20) | |||
| The Brief History of the Dead | |||||
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372 | (11) | |||
| Flotsam | |||||
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383 | (24) | |||
| The Bees | |||||
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407 | (14) | |||
| Dancing Men | |||||
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421 | (26) | |||
| Lily, with Clouds | |||||
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447 | (6) | |||
| The Man Who Did Nothing | |||||
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453 | (15) | |||
| Husband | |||||
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468 | (7) | |||
| Open Doors | |||||
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475 | (7) | |||
| The Valley of Giants | |||||
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482 | (4) | |||
| Purity | |||||
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486 | (13) | |||
| Ancestor Money | |||||
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499 | (12) | |||
| Final Girl II: The Frame (poem) | |||||
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511 | (3) | |||
| Almost Home | |||||
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514 | (31) | |||
| Honorable Mentions: 2003 | 545 |
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