The Book of Swords
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August 14, 2017
Swords and sorceries abound in this massive anthology, featuring several luminaries of the fantasy genre. A few of these stories stand out, including Ken Liu’s “The Hidden Girl,” in which a girl in mythical China is kidnapped by a sorceress and trained to become a brilliant assassin who walks between worlds. “ ‘I Am a Handsome Man,’ Said Apollo Crow” by Kate Elliott also breaks the mold with a man, or maybe a banished god, who’s bound by a curse to serve but may remain wily enough to choose his own master. Robin Hobb’s “Her Father’s Sword” will take her regular readers back to familiar territory as a young village girl struggles to cope with an attack in the setting of her Farseer novels. Other works, such as Daniel Abraham’s “The Mocking Tower” and Ellen Kushner’s “When I Was a Highwayman” (which takes place in her Riverside setting), feel familiar for a different reason, differentiating themselves very little from general fantasy tropes. The anthology has strengths and weaknesses, but many readers will pick it up just for a new George R.R. Martin short story tied to the Song of Ice and Fire series.
February 1, 2018
This anthology of stories inspired by sword and sorcery (S&S) tales such as Robert E. Howard's Conan, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, and Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone boasts 16 pieces by a roster of modern fantasy star authors, including George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, C.J. Cherryh, Elizabeth Bear, and Ellen Kushner. Settings range from historical China and the Scandinavia of Beowulf to created worlds like Martin's Westeros and Hobb's Six Duchies, and most feature a sword or swords in a prominent role--though Lavie Tidhar's "Waterfalling" stands out as one exception for its gunslinging warriors in a bizarre cityscape. Each entry is narrated by a different reader, all top-notch. The variety of tales offers something for most fantasy fans to enjoy--the tones mostly range from the grim to the slightly less grim, occasionally seasoned with a few laughs. VERDICT Recommended for fans of any of the included authors or of the S&S genre in general, and for fantasy readers looking to discover a new favorite author. ["With original stories from [multiple] contributors...this is a great collection for any fantasy fan": LJ 9/15/17 review of the Bantam hc.]--Jason Puckett, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta
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