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The starlit wood : new fairy tales / edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe ; illustrations by Stella Björg.

Parisien, Dominik, (editor.). Wolfe, Navah, (editor.). Björg, Stella, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"Once upon a time in the desert, in a tower, on a spaceship, in the Other Country… For centuries, storytellers have crafted timeless tales that have always found a place in our hearts. Here, a new generation of critically acclaimed, award-winning writers have taken up their mantle and shaped traditional and extraordinary fairy tales into something startling and electrifying. From castles to canyons, a post-human landscape to a pixelated dungeon, from the far future to fantastical realms, The Starlit Wood transforms seventeen stories you thought you knew and takes you on a journey at once unexpected and familiar across time, space, and amazing new worlds."-- Author's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781481456135 (paperback)
Physical Description: 392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Saga Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe -- In the desert like a bone / by Seanan McGuire (Little Red Riding Hood) -- Underground / by Karin Tidbeck (East of the sun, west of the moon) -- Even the crumbs were delicious / by Daryl Gregory (Hansel and Gretel) -- The super ultra Duchess of Fedora / by Charle Jane Anders (The mouse, the bird, and the sausage) -- Familiaris / by Genevieve Valentine (The wolves) -- Seasons of glass and iron / by Amal El-Mohtar (The glass mountain/The black bull of Norroway) -- Badgirl, the deadman, and the wheel of fortune / by Catherynne M. Valente (The girl with no hands) -- Penny for a match, mister? / by Garth Nix (The little match girl) -- Some wait / by Stephen Graham Jones (The pied piper of Hamelin) -- The thousand eyes / by Jeffrey Ford (The voice of death) -- Giants in the sky / by Max Gladstone (Jack and the beanstalk) -- The briar and the rose / Marjorie Liu (Sleeping beauty) -- The other Thea / by Theodora Goss (The shadow) -- When I lay frozen / by Margo Lanagan (Thumbelina) -- Pearl / by Aliette de Bodard (Dā Tràng and the pearl) -- The tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the white-footed gazelle / by Sofia Samatar (The tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the white-footed gazelle) -- Reflected / by Kat Howard (The Snow Queen) -- Spinning silver / by Naomi Novik (Rumpelstiltskin).