Adventures In Unhistory

Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076530760X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."

Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913896297
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913896334
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Lavers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061900842
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Unicorns written by Chris Lavers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.” — Washington Post Book World From Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted people for millennia. In the endlessly fascinating The Natural History of Unicorns, author Chris Lavers ingeniously traces the legend of this mysterious creature to the real people, places, and animals that have influenced its story.

Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312111045
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best stories published in 1994.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 162579150X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mermaids! written by Gardner Dozois and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen exotic tales of the seas most seductive mystery. _The Prevalence of MermaidsÓ by Avram Davidson _Nothing in the RulesÓ by L. Sprague de Camp _She Sells Sea ShellsÓ by Paul Darcy Boles _The Soul CagesÓ by Thomas Crofton Croker _Sweetly the Waves Call to MeÓ by Pat Murphy _DriftglassÓ by Samuel R. Delany _Mrs. Pigafetta Swims WellÓ by Reginald Bretnor _The Nebraskan and the NereidÓ by Gene Wolfe _The Lady and the MeremanÓ by Jane Yolen _The Fishermans WifeÓ by Jane Yolen _Till Human Voices Wake UsÓ by Lewis Shiner _A Touch of StrangeÓ by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson _The Crest of Thirty-sixÓ by Davis Grubb _The Shannon MerrowÓ by Cooper McLauglin _Fish StoryÓ by Leslie Charteris _In the IslandsÓ by Pat Murphy At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Marion Rana
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319672983
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds written by Marion Rana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre conventions.With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters’ situatedness within Pratchett’s novels and what this may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Two discusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modern aspects of Pratchett’s writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions. This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or student interested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular.

Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324891
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings written by Michael Dirda and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.

Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312874926
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Nineteenth Century written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466829508
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dozens of delightful stories in this anthology dazzle the mind with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of here and now. On display is the work of many of today's greatest writers--and tomorrow's--including: Brian W. Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Neal Barrett, Jr., Pat Cadigan, Jack Cady, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, David B. Kisor, Nancy Kress, Ian R. MacLeod, Maureen F. McHugh, G. David Nordley, Rebecca Ore, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, Mark Rich, Charles Sheffield, Dan Simmons, William Browning Spencer, Bruce Sterling, Steven Utley, Don Webb, Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis. A long list of Honorable Mentions and an insightful roundup of the year in science fiction make the book indispensable for every fan of fantastic fiction. "Intriguing characters, creative settings and a certain amount of consciousness-raising are evident in many selections...Readers have a useful jumping-off point should they wish to continue their explorations of an expanding literary universe."--Publishers Weekly