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nAward-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by todays top fantasy writers, including Neil Gaiman and Emma and Peter Straub. The Native American trickster Coyote . . . the snake-haired Greek Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turned men to stone . . . Kaggen, creator of the San peoples of Africa . . . the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend . . . Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and beauty . . . Ys, the mythical sunken city once built on the coast of France . . . Ragnarok, the myth of a world destroyed and reborn . . . Jason and the Argonauts, sailing in search of the Golden Fleece . . . Myths and legends are the oldest of stories, part of our collective consciousness, and the source from which all fiction flows. Full of magic, supernatural powers, monsters, heroes, epic journeys, strange worlds, and vast imagination, they are fantasies so compelling we want to believe them true. This new anthology compiles some of the best modern short mythic retellings and reinvention of legend from award-winning and bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and exciting new talent, offering readers new ways to interpret and understand the world. Adventure with us on these Mythic Journeys . Stories and authors include are: Lost Lake - Emma Straub and Peter Straub nWhite Lines on a Green Field - Catherynne M. Valente nTrickster - Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due nOur Talons Can Crush Galaxies - Brooke Bolander nA Memory of Wind - Rachel Swirsky nLeda - M. Rickert nChivalry - Neil Gaiman nThe God of Au - Ann Leckie nFaint Voices, Increasingly Desperate - Anya Johanna DeNiro nOgres of East Africa - Sofia Samatar nYs - Aliette de Bodard nThe Gorgon - Tanith Lee nMerlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood - Charles de Lint nCalypso in Berlin - Elizabeth Hand nSeeds - Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter nWonder-Worker-of-the-World - Nisi Shawl nThesea and Astaurius - Priya Sharma nFoxfire, Foxfire - Yoon Ha Lee nOwl vs. the Neighborhood Watch - Darcie Little Badger nHow to Survive an Epic Journey - Tansy Rayner Roberts nSimargl and the Rowan Tree - Ekaterina Sedia nThe Ten Suns - Ken Liu nArmless Maidens of the American West - Genevieve Valentine nGive Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream - Maria Dahvana Headley nZhyuin - John Shirley nImmortal Snake - Rachel Pollack nA Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie - Sonya Taaf
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