Product Description

A brand new collection of award-winning short stories specifically targeted to teens orld Fantasy Award for Best Anthology winner Patrick Nielsen Hayden brings his experience as the industry's leading anthologist to a new collection of outstanding short works of fantasy for young adults. From an immense catalog of brilliant, ground-breaking short stories from the last twenty years, Nielsen Hayden has collected the most outstanding short stories that speak most directly to teens. New Magics includes masters like Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, Jane Yolen, Charles de Lint, Harry Turtle-dove, Orson Scott Card, Robin McKinley and many more. There are many collections of best short stories, but this is the only one that addresses the tastes and interests of today's young readers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2011127 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

About the Author
Patrick Nielsen Hayden is Senior Editor, Manager of Science Fiction, at Tor Books. He has worked in the science fiction field as an editor, reviewer, publisher, and in other capacities, since the mid-1970s. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most literate and historically aware editors in science fiction."

His original anthology series Starlight has won the World Fantasy Award, while individual stories from it have won the Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. His other anthologies include the YA reprint collections New Skies and New Magics and Up. A frequent speaker at science fiction conventions and writing workshops, he also plays guitar with a variety of ensembles and maintains a popular weblog about politics and culture. He lives with his wife and collaborator, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, in Brooklyn, New York.

Customer Reviews

Here's the Table of Contents
CONTENTS

Neil Gaiman, "Chivalry"
Ellen Kushner, "Charis"
Susan Palwick, "Jo's Hair"
Harry Turtledove, "Not All Wolves"
Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, "Stealing God"
Jane Yolen, "Mama Gone"
Charles de Lint, "The Bone Woman"
Andy Duncan, "Liza and the Crazy Water Man"
Sherwood Smith, "Mom and Dad at the Home Front"
Emma Bull, "A Bird That Whistles"
Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Bones of the Earth"
Orson Scott Card, "Hatrack River"

Not Free SF Reader
This anthology is clearly aimed at kids, so in the main, a lot of simpler stories, with the usual content, style and tone limitations this entails. A pretty reasonable collection as far as that goes, and, as you would expect, kids to teenagers feature prominently, with Le Guin the standout.

New Magics : Chivalry - Neil Gaiman
New Magics : Charis - Ellen Kushner
New Magics : Jo's Hair - Susan Palwick
New Magics : Not All Wolves - Harry Turtledove
New Magics : Stealing God - Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
New Magics : Mama Gone - Jane Yolen
New Magics : The Bone Woman - Charles deLint
New Magics : Liza and the Crazy Water Man - Andy Duncan
New Magics : Mom and Dad at the Home Front - Sherwood Smith
New Magics : A Bird That Whistles - Emma Bull
New Magics : The Bones of the Earth - Ursula K. LeGuin
New Magics : Hatrack River - Orson Scott Card


Magic junk knight.

3 out of 5


Elf sweat shake ritual.

3 out of 5


Lost bits.

2 out of 5


Avram's werewolf kid persecution assistance.

3.5 out of 5


Gunning for the Grail.

3 out of 5


Vamp a bye baby.

3 out of 5


Fleshing them out.

3.5 out of 5


Broadcast difficulties.

3 out of 5


Too old for this spot.

2.5 out of 5


Anyone like hippy fairies?

3.5 out of 5


Local mastery.

4 out of 5


Bloody Mary land.

2 out of 5




2.5 out of 5