Unfettered Tales by Masters of Fantasy Author:Shawn Speakman (Editor) You define life or it defines you. In webmaster and freelance author Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hogdkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry B... more »rooks offered to donate a short story Shawn could sell toward alleviating those bills -- and suggested Shawn ask the same of his other friends.
Unfettered is the result, an anthology built to relieve that medical debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre. More than $200,000 was accumulated during his uninsured battle with Hodgkin's cancer. Nearly two-dozen authors, including some of the highest selling writers in the fantasy genre have donated works to the project.
With the help of stalwart friends and these wonderful short stories, Shawn has taken the gravest of life hardships and created something magical. Unfettered is not only a fantastic anthology in its own right but it’s a testament to the generosity found in the science fiction and fantasy community -- proof that humanity can give beyond itself when the need arises. Twenty-three tales comprise this incredible collection, and as the title suggests, the writers were free to contribute whatever they wished.
Contents:
Artwork (Unfettered) • donated by artist Todd Lockwood
Foreword (Unfettered) • essay by Patrick Rothfuss
Introduction: On Becoming Unfettered • essay by Shawn Speakman
Imaginary Friends (1991) / novelette by Terry Brooks
How Old Holly Came To Be [The Kingkiller Chronicle] / shortstory by Patrick Rothfuss
The Old Scale Game / shortstory by Tad Williams
Game of Chance (2013) / shortfiction by Carrie Vaughn
The Martyr of the Roses [Kushiel's Legacy Universe] / shortstory by Jacqueline Carey
Mudboy [Demon Cycle] / shortstory by Peter V. Brett
The Sound of Broken Absolutes [The Vault of Heaven] / novella by Peter Orullian
The Coach With Big Teeth / shortstory by R. A. Salvatore
Keeper of Memory / novelette by Todd Lockwood
Heaven in a Wild Flower / novelette by Blake Charlton
Dogs / novelette by Daniel Abraham
The Chapel Perilous [The Iron Druid Chronicles • 4.8] / novelette by Kevin Hearne
Select Mode [The Broken Empire] / shortstory by Mark Lawrence
All the Girls Love Michael Stein / shortstory by David Anthony Durham
Strange Rain / shortstory by Jennifer Bosworth
Nocturne / novelette by Robert V. S. Redick
Unbowed [Legend of Asahiel] / novelette by Eldon Thompson
In Favour With Their Stars [Temeraire] / shortstory by Naomi Novik
River of Souls [Wheel of Time] / shortstory by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Jester [The Riyria Chronicles] / novelette by Michael J. Sullivan
The Duel [Fillory] / shortstory by Lev Grossman
Walker and the Shade of Allanon [Shannara Universe] / shortstory by Terry Brooks
The Unfettered Knight [The Annwn Cycle] / novelette by Shawn Speakman