β Scribed by Ellen Datlow
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"This anthology of short fiction affords a superb sampling of urban fantasy, that popular sf/fantasy subgenre defined in the bookβs introduction (which, in all of three pages, is a welcome and helpful, to say nothing of articulate, definition of this subgenre) as a combination of the βoften-dark edge of city living with enticing worlds of magicββwith an urban landscape being absolutely crucial to the story. To put it another way (as also expressed in the introduction, that is), βwhere the story takes place should matter, in some way, to the story.β The headliner piece, by virtue of its placement first in the collectionβs presentation and the name recognition of the author, is βCurses,β by Jim Butcher, creator of the urban-fantasy series Dresden Files. It opens like a noir detective storyββMost of my cases are pretty tameββbut by page 2, we see this is Dresden Files fiction as well. The premise is a riot: the famous curse upon the Chicago Cubs has supernatural origins here. βPriced to Sell,β by Naomi Novik, is also very entertaining. Itβs about vampires buying real estate in Manhattan. But you will have fun with all 20 stories."--Booklist
Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running The Yearβs Best Fantasy and Horror. She lives in New York. Visit her on the web at www.datlow.com.
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