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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
| Author: | Ellen Datlow Terri Windling |
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Tor, 2013 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
"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 Brontës, 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 visionof a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.
Table of Contents:
- Preface - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- Introduction: Fantasy, Magic, and Fairyland in Nineteenth-Century England - essay by Terri Windling
- Queen Victoria's Book of Spells - shortfiction by Delia Sherman
- The Fairy Enterprise - shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
- From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire) - shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine
- The Memory Book - shortfiction by Maureen F. McHugh
- La Reine D'Enfer - shortfiction by Kathe Koja
- For the Briar Rose - shortfiction by Elizabeth Wein
- The Governess - shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear
- Smithfield - shortfiction by James P. Blaylock
- The Unwanted Women of Surrey - shortfiction by Kaaron Warren
- Charged - shortfiction by Leanna Renee Hieber
- Mr. Splitfoot - shortfiction by Dale Bailey
- Phosphorus - shortfiction by Veronica Schanoes
- We Without Us Were Shadows - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Vital Importance of the Superficial - shortfiction by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
- The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown - (2013) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
- A Few Twigs He Left Behind - shortfiction by Gregory Maguire
- Their Monstrous Minds - shortfiction by Tanith Lee
- Estella Saves the Village - shortfiction by Theodora Goss
- About the Authors - essay by uncredited
- Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited
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