The Book of Magic Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Hot on the heels of award-winning editor Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf ... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda ... and a Wicked Witch of the West. — What would Harry Potter be without... more » Albus Dumbledore ... and Severus Snape? Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and sorcerers are shaped -- or misshaped -- by the potent magic they seek to wield. Yet though their abilities may be godlike, these men and women remain human -- some might say all too human. Such is their curse. And their glory.
In these pages, seventeen of today's top fantasy writers -- including award-winners Elizabeth Bear, John Crowley, Kate Elliott, K.J. Parker, Tim Powers, and Liz Williams -- cast wondrous spells that thrillingly evoke the mysterious, awesome, and at times downright terrifying worlds where magic reigns supreme: worlds as far away as forever, and as near as next door.
The return of the pig / K.J. Parker --
Community service / Megan Lindholm --
Flint and mirror / John Crowley --
The friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable / Matthew Hughes --
Biography of a bouncing boy terror, chapter II: jumping Jack in love / Ysabeau S. Wilce --
Song of fire / Pachel Pollack --
Loft the sorcerer / Eleanor Arnason --
The governor / Tim Powers --
Sungrazer / Liz Williams --
The staff in the stone / Garth Nix --
No work of mine / Elizabeth Bear --
Widow maker / Lavie Tidhar --
The wolf and the manticore / Greg Van Eekhout --
A night at the Tarn House / George R.R. Martin --
The devil's whaterver / Andy Duncan --
Bloom / Kate Elliott --
The fall and rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril / Scott Lynch« less