by Isaac Asimov (1996)
To Your Health - short story The Critic on the Hearth - short story It's a Job - short story Baby, It's Cold Outside - short story The Time Traveler - short story Wine is a Mocker - short story The Mad Scientist - short story The Fable of the Three Princes - novelette March Against the Foe - short story Northwestward - short story Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon - short story Magic - essay Sword and Sorcery - essay Concerning Tolkien - essay In Days of Old - essay Giants in the Earth - essay When Fantasy Became Fantasy - essay The Reluctant Critic - essay The Unicorn - essay Unknown - essay Extraordinary Voyages - essay Fairy Tales - essay Dear Judy-Lynn - essay Fantasy - essay Reading and Writing - essay The Right Answer - essay Ignorance in America - essay Knock Plastic! - essay Lost in Non-Translation - essay Look Long Upon a Monkey - essay Thinking About Thinking - essay
Katharine Kerr
While a dashing young king journeys to his throne in disguise, fulfilling an ancient prophecy, the exiled lord Rhodry travels anonymously as a mercenary. Published History: July 1st 1993 by Spectra (first published 1992)
Nancy Springer
The life of young Prince Trevyn of Isle changes forever on the day a mysterious boy named Gwern is welcomed without question into the family’s castle. Stubborn and resentful of the unwanted intrusion, the errant teenage prince abandons his home and soon finds himself both in love and in jeopardy. Enraptured by the village girl Meg, he incurs the wrath of Wael, a powerful warlock, by saving the lady of his heart and her people from certain destruction. But young Trevyn’s trials have only just begun. Lured across the seas by his vengeful foe, he is captured and enslaved, and must somehow find his way to freedom. For the unprotected Isle is now at Wael’s mercy, and love will surely die if the boy-prince cannot return to the realm as its champion.
Robert E. Howard
The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 2000 by Gollancz as eighth volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series. The book, edited by Stephen Jones, presents the stories in their internal chronological order. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Phantagraph, Weird Tales, Super-Science Fiction, Magazine of Horror and Fantasy Fiction.
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
An anthology of revisionist fairy tales, many with a feminist slant. In the tale of Snow White, the villain is not the stepmother but the stepfather and the dwarfs are wise women. A total of 19 tales.