Search Worlds Without End

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the fantasy prose written in 2005, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines. In this volume you'll find stories Peter Beagle, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe and more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Year in Fantasy - essay by Rich Horton
• Pip and the Fairies - (2005) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Comber - (2005) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Three Urban Folk Tales - (2005) - shortstory by Eric Schaller
• Wax - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• The Emperor of Gondwanaland - (2005) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• CommComm - (2005) - shortstory by George Saunders
• Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died - (2005) - shortstory by Samantha Henderson
• Fancy Bread - (2005) - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• Sunbird - (2005) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• The Secret of Broken Tickers - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Murphy
• On the Blindside - (2005) - shortstory by Sonya Taaffe
• Jane - (2005) - shortstory by Marc Laidlaw
• Is There Life After Rehab? - (2005) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Two Hearts - (2005) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Super-Villains - (2006) - shortstory by Michael Canfield
• Empty Places - (2005) - shortstory by Richard Parks
• Invisible - (2005) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• By the Light of Tomorrow's Sun - (2005) - shortstory by Holly Phillips
• The Gist Hunter - (2005) - novelette by Matthew Hughes

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best fantasy prose written in 2006, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines.

Table of Contents:

• The Year in Fantasy, 2006 - (2007) - essay by Rich Horton
• Journey into the Kingdom - (2006) - novelette by M. Rickert
• The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons - (2006) - shortstory by David J. Schwartz
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Osteomancer's Son - (2006) - shortstory by Greg van Eekhout
• Salt Wine - (2006) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Original Word for Rain - (2006) - shortstory by Peter Higgins
• The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - (2006) - novella by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Journey to Gantica - (2006) - shortstory by Matthew Corradi
• Irregular Verbs - (2006) - shortstory by Matthew Johnson
• A Fish Story - (2006) - shortstory by Sarah Totton
• The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• A Fine Magic - (2006) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Naturally - (2006) - shortstory by Daniel Handler
• Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge - (2006) - novelette by Richard Parks
• Citrine: A Fable - (2006) - shortstory by Elise Moser
• A Siege of Cranes - (2006) - novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Contributors
• Publication History

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best fantasy prose written in 2007, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines.

Table of Contents:

• The Year in Fantasy, 2007 - essay by Rich Horton
• Unpossible - (2007) - shortstory by Daryl Gregory
• Light - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Teashop - (2007) - novelette by Zoran Živkovic
• The Rope: A New Tale of the Antique Lands - (2007) - shortstory by Noreen Doyle
• Buttons - (2007) - shortstory by William Alexander
• Brother of the Moon - (2007) - shortstory by Holly Phillips
• A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question - (2007) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Heartstrung - (2007) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky
• The Cambist and Lord Iron - (2007) - shortfiction by Daniel Abraham
• Something in the Mermaid Way - (2007) - shortstory by Carrie Laben
• Public Safety - (2007) - novelette by Matthew Johnson
• Stray - (2007) - shortstory by David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The Comb - (2007) - shortfiction by Marly Youmans
• Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again - (2007) - novelette by Garth Nix
• The Last Worders - (2007) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Singing of Mount Abora - (2007) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Save Me Plz - (2007) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• Bufo Rex - (2007) - shortstory by Erik Amundsen
• The Master Miller's Tale - (2007) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• Contributors - essay by Rich Horton