The Mammoth Book Of Extreme Fantasy

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780332826

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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

In extreme fantasy anything can happen. In Mike Ashley's breathtaking new anthology the only rules are those the writer makes - these are stories to liberate both the writers' and readers' imagination. They will take you to hell and back (literally - two of the stories involve hell in ways never explored before). For too long fantasy fiction has become synonymous with vast heroic-fantasy adventures in imitation of The Lord of the Rings, but the genre has always been far greater than dwarves and elves. Today many writers are rediscovering the wider world of fantasy and creating bold new ideas or magically reworking older arts. Ashley selects 25 stories by the likes of Orson Scott Card, Paul Di Filippo, A. A. Attanasio, Michael Swanwick, Christopher Priest and Peter Crowther, arranged in ascending order of 'extremeness'. The anthology opens with a story that takes us beyond Middle Earth in 'Senator Bilbo' by Andy Duncan - showing what happens when a radical descendant of his famous namesake tries to introduce immigration control - and reaches the ultimate in 'The Dark One' by A. A. Attanasio, a rite of passage story where you, the reader, discover you are being tested to become the successor to Satan. Other stories include: A man with a terminal disease looks for a cure in a world where Edward Lear meets Lewis Carroll. A man decides to banish all language. A tour of Hell by the boatman himself. The great comic stars of Hollywood find themselves seeking their lost world. A magical experiment recreates the Crucifixion. Suddenly all colour drains out of the world. A magical recreation of Chinese fantasy cinema where a magician and his adepts fight the flying dead.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849015356

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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction by Mike Ashley Pdf

Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Mammoth
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114884

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The Mammoth Book of Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

The Mammoth Book of Great Fantasy offers a wonderful collection - both classic and new - of this ever-popular genre. Mike Ashley brings together the great masters and originators of the form, such as George Macdonald and Lord Dunsany, through the great days of Conan the Barbarian, Elric and Melnibone and, of course, the creations of J.R.R.Tolkien, to today's craftsmen of fantasy such as Terry Pratchett, David Gemmell and Tanith Lee. Stories include: Yesterday was Monday, in which Theodore Sturgeon writes about a man who goes to sleep on Monday and awakes to find the next day is Wednesday - he has slipped out of time. The Wall Around the World, by Theodore Cogswell, tells of a young boy who masters flight in order to escape from a world in which he has become trapped. A Witch Shall be Born, one of Robert E.Howards greatest Conan the Barbarian stories. Aelfwine of England, a rare tale by J R R Tolkien, linking Dark Age Britain to Middle Earth.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472112132

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The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories and hard-to-find gems: a computer salesman in fairyland, a vampire football match, a psychotic Father Christmas, and a wizard allergic to magic. Ashley expertly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and magic into mayhem. This is huge fun for all comic fantasy fans.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Mammoth
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114938

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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces! It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114808

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The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one. It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114907

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The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

A new collection of magic and mayhem from fantasy's funniest, wackiest writers, including Harlan Ellison, Esther Friesner, Neil Gailman, Craig Shaw Gardner, Harry Harrison, Tom Hold and Julia Mandala.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 1845291573

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The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy by Anonim Pdf

All-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoths ever - from the funniest writers in the field, including Tom Holt and Esther Friesner. Some 35 off-the-wall comic fantasies feature in Mike Ashley's new collection, a mix of specially written stories and hard-to-find gems. A missionary plunged into the initiation rites of a lost tribe, a wizard allergic to magic and a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life - Ashley expertly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and magic into mayhem. Huge fun.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780339924

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The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic by Mike Ashley Pdf

Twenty-three spellbinding tales of sorcery, wizardry and witchcraft, of the ceaseless battle between good and evil. From dark lords and epic clashes between the forces of good and evil to a child's struggle to control magical powers for the first time this wonderfully varied collection comprises stories by the most outstanding writers of fantasy: A. C. Benson, James Bibby, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Louise Cooper, Ralph Adams Cram, Peter Crowther, Esther M. Friesner, Tom Holt, Doug Hornig, Diana Wynne Jones, Michael Kurland, Tim Lebbon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Richard A. Lupoff, Michael Moorcock, John Morressy, Tim Pratt, David Sandner, Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick, Darrell Schweitzer, Clark Ashton Smith, Steve Rasnic Tem and Robert Weinberg.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0762439912

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The Mammoth Book of the End of the World by Mike Ashley Pdf

Pre- and post-apocalyptic science fiction is on the rise, and some of the genre's best new stories are collected here, with contributions by Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, and Damien Broderick.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fantasy literature
ISBN : OCLC:1225860885

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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Mammoth
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114860

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The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction by Mike Ashley Pdf

The art of writing great science fiction is that it challenges the imagination, pushing it to extreme limits and in this anthology, selecting some of the best modern science fiction from the last fifty years, twenty leading authors of the genre ask the question 'What if...?' and then give their own very personal views of the changes and surprises which may befall humanity in the centuries to come. In Ulla, Ulla Eric Brown recounts the first manned Martian expedition and discovers that H. G. Wells may have been right after all. In The Infinite Assassin Greg Egan polices the dimensions, seeking those who are taking over their alternate selves. Geoffrey A. Landis takes us into the depths of a black hole in Approaching Perimelasma. Is the ultimate Utopia heaven or hell? Robert Sheckley finds out in the classic A Ticket to Tranai. These and other stories by James White, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Reed, H. Beam Piper and H. Chandler Elliot make this one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking science fiction anthologies in lightyears.

Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Scarlet (UK)
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 1854875302

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The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy by Michael Ashley Pdf

Fantasy-noveller.

Author : Marie O'Regan
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780330259

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The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'Regan Pdf

25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472100269

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The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF by Mike Ashley Pdf

This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.