Trying and failing to find compilations of fantasy-genre short stories to buy. Why is it so much easier to find science fiction and horror anthologies of short stories than it is fantasy ones?
Sometimes they all tend to get mushed up under the same heading. Are you open to older titles, and MG/YA? Try Bruce Coville's themed collections - any of them, really. I have pretty good luck with them. Charles de Lint has at least one collection out, as do Jane Yolen and Patricia C. Wrede. Mercedes Lackey edited some fantasy anthologies a while back. The old Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber are available in collected volumes, if you're interested in the roots of sword & sorcery. Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Midnight's decent. Martin H. Greenberg edits anthologies that usually have bigger, more recent names attached; give them a look for fantasy themes. Bill Fawcett did some older anthologies with big-at-the-time names, too. On a "I haven't read it yet, but I know it exists because it's on the Nook" note, there's Hall of Heroes, the second in an anthology series by the "Fellowship of Fantasy." Looks promising, but as I said, I haven't actually read it yet.
Well, it's Saturday, and I'm slowly getting up to speed. Got a book review to write, a room to sweep and mop, an oven to clean (it's been sitting overnight with the spray - long overdue for a scrubdown), a shed to retouch and bug bomb... gonna be a busy day, even without family intruding.
Off I go.
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And it's afternoon. How am I doing on my list?
Book review - check.
Room swept and mopped - check.
Oven cleaned - check.
Shed... not so much. Relatives are fiddling with the front porch, so I'm avoiding the yard. But at least I got the inside stuff done, more or less. Even gave the hall a quick pass with the vacuum.
We're probably doing Something with extended family on Monday. Details have not been relayed to me.
Guess I'll poke at site stuff. That I can do here, while hiding with my headphones. (The porch project is not going well, from the sound of it...)
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