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Indlæser... Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (2013)af Ellen Datlow (Redaktør), Terri Windling (Redaktør)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Great collection of evocative and wide-ranging stories though they all hew well within the scope of a magical Victorian Age. My favorite of the stories remains the titular (and opening) story of the collection, though your mileage may vary. ( ) Maybe I just had overly high expectations for a "gaslamp fantasy" anthology edited by Datlow, but I thought this book was good, not great, though I've enjoyed many of the contributing authors in the past. I did really like the titular story by Delia Sherman and the Sorcery and Cecilia-esque offering by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer. There were two standout stories in this collection. Phosphorus:. The fantasy element in this story plays a cameo role; it is 99% reality of the most depressing kind. Someday I am going to piss on Queen Victoria's grave......read the story to find out why! For the Briar Rose:. I do not weep easily over literature, but this story turned on the waterworks. All women are someone's daughters and many of us have been blessed with daughters of our own. This story isn't sad, but sentimental and sweet, addressing family, love, and the insidious passage of time. Being a huge fan of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite painters, I was thrilled to meet them as characters in this story. Five stars for this one! I received this anthology at World Fantasy Con in 2014 and had it signed by editor Ellen Datlow. Though this was one of my favorite acquisitions there, it ended up buried in my to-read pile. What a shame, because wow, this book is a treasure. Not only does it capture the essence of gaslamp fantasy by showing the diversity of the subgenre, but the stories are GOOD. I had two stories that I didn't really connect with, but the others were above-average and full of wow. My absolute favorites wee "The Governess" by Elizabeth Bear, "Charged" by Leanna Renee Hieber, "Phosphorous" by Veronica Schanoes (which made me teary-eyed at the end).
Queen Victoria provided the people of the world with many reasons not to love her, historians included; in fact, nostalgia and fondness don't support historiography, they hamstring it. On some level, this holds a mirror to the anthology as a whole, fascinating and finely written and edited as it is. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells speaks with voices that love the nineteenth century, and love it with nuance and complexity, but perhaps a bit too well. HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
""Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontë's, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic"-- No library descriptions found. |
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