The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

Step through a shimmering portal … a worn wardrobe door … a schism in sky … into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around...

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Step through a shimmering portal … a worn wardrobe door … a schism in sky … into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest.

Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories.

NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and has been added to the National Endowment for the Arts prestigious Big Reads program. His prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilati...

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NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and has been added to the National Endowment for the Arts prestigious Big Reads program. His prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, has been translated into 35 languages, and was made into a film from Paramount Pictures directed by Alex Garland. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination.

xiii • Introduction • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
3 • Ten Rounds with Grandfather Clock • short story by Maurice Richardson
7 • The Circular Valley • short story by Paul Bowles
13 • Signs and Symbols • short story by Vladimir Nabokov
17 • The Zahir • short story by Jorge Luis Borges
23 • Liane the Wayfarer • short story by Jack Vance
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xiii • Introduction • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
3 • Ten Rounds with Grandfather Clock • short story by Maurice Richardson
7 • The Circular Valley • short story by Paul Bowles
13 • Signs and Symbols • short story by Vladimir Nabokov
17 • The Zahir • short story by Jorge Luis Borges
23 • Liane the Wayfarer • short story by Jack Vance
30 • Poolwana's Orchid • short story by Edgar Mittelholzer
43 • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • short story by Margaret St. Clair
46 • O Ugly Bird! • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
55 • The Gopherwood Box • prose poem by Abraham Sutzkever
57 • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (excerpt) • short fiction by Amos Tutuola
66 • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • short story by Gabriel García Márquez
71 • The Anything Box • short story by Zenna Henderson
80 • Lean Times in Lankhmar • novelette by Fritz Leiber
102 • The Dreaming City • novelette by Michael Moorcock
120 • Travel • short story by Julio Cortázar
121 • On the Preservation of Memories • short story by Julio Cortázar
121 • Clocks • short story by Julio Cortázar
121 • The Lunch • short story by Julio Cortázar
122 • Handkerchiefs • short story by Julio Cortázar
122 • Business • short story by Julio Cortázar
122 • Philanthropy • short story by Julio Cortázar
123 • The Public Highways • short story by Julio Cortázar
123 • Song of the Cronopios • short story by Julio Cortázar
123 • Story • short story by Julio Cortázar
124 • The Narrow Spoonful • short story by Julio Cortázar
124 • The Photo Came Out Blurred • short story by Julio Cortázar
124 • Eugenics • short story by Julio Cortázar
124 • His Faith in the Sciences • short story by Julio Cortázar
125 • Never Stop the Presses • short story by Julio Cortázar
125 • Improprieties in Public Space • short story by Julio Cortázar
126 • Make Yourself at Home • short story by Julio Cortázar
126 • Therapies • short story by Julio Cortázar
127 • The Particular and the Universal • short story by Julio Cortázar
127 • The Explorers • short story by Julio Cortázar
127 • Education of the Prince • short story by Julio Cortázar
128 • Place the Stamp in the Upper Right-Hand Corner of the Envelope • short story by Julio Cortázar
128 • Telegrams • short story by Julio Cortázar
129 • Lion and Cronopio • short story by Julio Cortázar
129 • Condor and Cronopio • short story by Julio Cortázar
129 • Flower and Cronopio • short story by Julio Cortázar
129 • Fama and Eucalyptus • short story by Julio Cortázar
129 • Turtles and Cronopio • short story by Julio Cortázar
130 • Kaya-Kalp (Metamorphosis) • short story by انتظار حسین
135 • The Last Dragon in the World • short story by Tove Jansson
142 • The Drowned Giant • short story by J. G. Ballard
149 • The Monster • short fiction by Satu Waltari
161 • Narrow Valley • short story by R. A. Lafferty
169 • The Sinister Apartment (Excerpt from The Master and Margarita) • short fiction by Михаил Булгаков
176 • The Origin of the Birds • short story by Italo Calvino
183 • The Prey • short story by Bilge Karasu
191 • The Topless Tower • novella by Silvina Ocampo
212 • The Barbarian • novelette by Joanna Russ
224 • The Youngest Doll • short story by Rosario Ferré
228 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
233 • Ark of Bones • short story by Henry Dumas
241 • Winged Creatures • novelette by Sylvia Townsend Warner
253 • Linnaeus Forgets • short story by Fred Chappell
262 • The Erl-King • short story by Angela Carter
267 • The Great Night of the Trains • short story by Sara Gallardo
271 • The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
288 • The White Horse Child • short story by Greg Bear
299 • The Dreamstone • short story by C. J. Cherryh
307 • Five Letters from an Eastern Empire • novella by Alasdair Gray
327 • The Ice Dragon • novelette by George R. R. Martin
338 • One Time • poem by Leslie Marmon Silko
343 • Sister Light, Sister Dark • short story by Jane Yolen
352 • The Luck in the Head • novelette by M. John Harrison
366 • Warlock at the Wheel • short story by Diana Wynne Jones
374 • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut • novelette by Stephen King
389 • On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops • short story by Pat Murphy
396 • After the Hurricane • short story by Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz
403 • The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood • short story by Rachel Pollack
409 • The Bystander • short fiction by Leena Krohn
413 • Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
422 • The Mole King • short story by Marie Hermanson
432 • What the Tapster Saw • short story by Ben Okri
437 • The Fool • novelette by David Drake
458 • The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico • short story by Antonio Tabucchi
463 • A Mexican Fairy Tale • short story by Leonora Carrington
468 • The Boy in the Tree • novelette by Elizabeth Hand
486 • TV People • short story by 村上春樹
497 • Alice in Prague or The Curious Room • short story by Angela Carter
506 • Moon Songs • short story by Carol Emshwiller
513 • The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII • short story by Виктор Пелевин
520 • The Fellowship of the Dragon • novelette by Patricia McKillip
533 • Troll Bridge • short story by Terry Pratchett
539 • Longing for Blood • novelette by Vilma Kadlečková
560 • A Brief Visit to Bonnyville • short story by D. F. Lewis
566 • Travels with the Snow Queen • novelette by Kelly Link
577 • The Neurosis of Containment • short story by Rikki Ducornet
586 • The Darktree Wheel • novella by Rhys Hughes
608 • Fœtus • short story by Shelley Jackson
612 • Tan-Tan and Dry Bone • short story by Nalo Hopkinson
620 • Where Does the Town Go at Night? • novelette by Tanith Lee
635 • Pop Art • novelette by Joe Hill
648 • State Secrets of Aphasia • novelette by Stepan Chapman
669 • The Window • short story by Татьяна Толстая
677 • The Weight of Words • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
694 • All the Water in the World • short story by 韩松
700 • The Kite of Stars • short story by Dean Francis Alfar
706 • Mogo • short story by Alberto Chimal
715 • The Malady of Ghostly Cities • short story by Nathan Ballingrud
718 • End of the Line • short story by Aimee Bender
723 • I Left My Heart in Skaftafell • short story by Victor LaValle
732 • The Grassdreaming Tree • short story by Sheree Renée Thomas
740 • La Peau Verte • novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
756 • A Hard Truth About Waste Management • short story by Sumanth Prabhaker
759 • Bufo Rex • short story by Erik Amundsen
763 • The Arrest of the Great Mimille • novelette by Antoine Volodine
781 • Aunts • short story by Karin Tidbeck
785 • For Life • novelette by Marta Kisiel
809 • The Spring of Dongke Temple • short story by 骑桶人
814 • The Wordeaters • short story by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
819 • Creature • short story by Ramsey Shehadeh
827 • Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe • novelette by Garth Nix
846 • The Bear Dresser's Secret • short story by Richard Bowes
850 • Table with Ocean • short story by Alberto Chimal
853 • The Jinn Darazgosh: A Fable Relating How the Curiosity of a Jinn Led to Unhappy Results and Brought About the Closure of the Heavens Upon His Race • short story by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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