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Overview: 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'.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy

CONTENTS

Beyond the Impossible, ~ Mike Ashley
Senator Bilbo, ~ Andy Duncan
Sandmagic, ~ Orson Scott Card
Dream a Little Dream for Me…, ~ Peter Crowther
Lost Wax, ~ Leah Bobet
Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me, ~ Howard Waldrop
I Am Bonaro, ~ John Niendorff
The Old House Under the Snow, ~ Rhys Hughes
Banquet of the Lords of Night, ~ Liz Williams
Charlie the Purple Giraffe was Acting Strangely, ~ David D Levine
Master Lao and the Flying Horror, ~ Lawrence Person
Using It and Losing It, ~ Jonathan Lethem
The All-at-Once Man, ~ R A Lafferty
Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani, ~ William Hope Hodgson
Boatman’s Holiday, ~ Jeffrey Ford
The Detweiler Boy, ~ Tom Reamy
The Fence at the End of the World, ~ Melissa Mia Hall
Elric at the End of Time, ~ Michael Moorcock
Cup and Table, ~ Tim Pratt
I, Haruspex, ~ Christopher Priest
Radio Waves, ~ Michael Swanwick
Tower of Babylon, ~ Ted Chiang
Jack Neck and the Worry Bird, ~ Paul Di Filippo
The Dark One: A Mythograph, ~ A A Attanasio
A Ring of Green Fire, ~ Sean McMullen