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Fearsome Magics

Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz series

A cabinet of magic! A cavalcade of wonder! A collection of stories both strange and wondrous, of tales filled with wild adventure and strange imaginings. Fearsome Magics, the second New Solaris Book of Fantasy, is all these things and more. It is, we think, one of the best books you will read all year.

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Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has invited some of the best and most exciting writers working in fantasy today to let their imaginations run wild and to deliver stories that will thrill and awe, delight and amuse. And above all, stories that are filled with fearsome magic! Authors set to take part in Fearsome Magics include Christopher Priest, Garth Nix, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Klages, Isobelle Carmody, Nalo Hopkinson, Frances Hardinge, Scott Lynch, Robert Shearman, Justina Robson, Christopher Rowe, Karin Tidbeck, K J Parker, and Justina Robson.

Table of Contents:

"The Dun Letter" by Christopher Rowe

"Home is the Haunter (A Sir Hereward and Mr Fitz story)" by Garth Nix

"Grigori's Solution" by Isobelle Carmody

"Dream London Hospital" by Tony Ballantyne

"Safe House" by K J Parker

"Hey Presto!" by Ellen Klages

"The Changeling" by James Bradley

"Migration" by Karin Tidbeck

"On Skybolt Mountain" by Justina Robson

"Where Our Edges Lie" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

"Devil's Bridge" by Frances Hardinge

"The Nursery Corner" by Kaaron Warren

"Aberration" by Genevieve Valentine

"Ice in the Bedroom" by Robert Shearman

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 301 pages

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