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(3.62) | 4 | Collects thirty-three retellings of famous fairy tales from some of the biggest names in today's fantasy fiction, including Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Gregory Maguire, and Nancy Kress. |
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Contains: - The Seven Stage a Comeback / Gregory Maguire
- And in Their Glad Rags / Genevieve Valentine
- The Sawing Boys / Howard Waldrop
- Bear It Away / Michael Cadnum
- Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower / Susanna Clarke
- The Black Fairy's Curse / Karen Joy Fowler
- My Life as a Bird / Charles de Lint
- The Night Market / Holly Black
- The Rose in Twelve Petals / Theodora Goss
- The Red Path / Jim C. Hines
- Blood and Water / Alethea Kontis
- Hansel's Eyes / Garth Nix
- He Died That Day, in Thirty Years / Wil McCarthy
- Snow in Summer / Jane Yolen
- The Rose Garden / Michelle West
- The Little Magic Shop / Bruce Sterling
- Black Feather / K. Tempest Bradford
- Fifi's Tail / Alan Rodgers
- The Faery Handbag / Kelly Link
- Ashputtle / Peter Straub
- The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes / Leslie What
- Pinocchio's Diary / Robert J. Howe
- Little Red / Wendy Wheeler
- The Troll Bridge / Neil Gaiman
- The Price / Patricia Briggs
- Ailoura / Paul Di Fillippo
- The Farmer's Cat / Jeff Vandermeer
- The Root of the Matter / Gregory Frost
- Like A Red, Red Rose / Susan Wade
- Chasing America / Josh Rountree
- Stalking Beans / Nancy Kress
- Big Hair / Esther Friesner
- The Return of the Dark Children / Robert Coover
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All of that notwithstanding, there are some excellent stories:
-Wil McCarthy's He Died That Day, in Thirty Years is one of those rare pieces: a sci-fi short story that actually is satisfying. It stood on it's own and yet was clearly related to Alice in Wonderland. It was rich and provocative and wholly original. Perhaps particularly remarkable is how every little detail of the story was rich with information.
-Michelle West's The Rose Garden was something that I wanted to hate. I hate Beauty and the Best as the exemplar of the Bad Boy genre -- that horribly insidious, misogynist trope by which women should cleave to cruel, angry men and by their love covert them into some sort of paragon. But The Rose Garden, while not being a full inversion, was raw and honest about its intentions. And, I'm a sucker for platonic romance, so...
-Robert J. Howe's Pinocchio's Diary is terrifying, brutal, and an absolutely fascinating retelling. I loved his exploration of "realness" and bullying and othering. This is faery tale telling at it's best -- using a tale familiar to all of us, to tell a moral familiar to all of us, but to also tell a story that feels real and visceral and to twist it into something new that has a new moral.
There are also some completely AWFUL stories
-Howard Waldrop's The Sawing Boys is completely impenetrable. You see it's a modern twist on the faery tale in which a bunch of Yiddish gangsters are finally thwarted by a Klezmer band playing construction equipment. No? No hint of recognition? Maybe it will help if they only speak in roaring twenties slang, which is converted into Pig Latin such that you both have to decrypt every utterance and then further deduce it's meaning based on the glossary at the end of the story? No? Yeah, me neither. Also, apparently Yiddish is the new black in faery tales, as it also seems to infiltrate Leslie What's The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes for no clear reason, too.
-Gregory Maguire's The Seven Stage a Comeback, which unfortunately starts this collection, may work as a play, but as written media is completely god-awful. It's impossible to keep the dwarfs straight, as they have no names; only numbers, therefore there is no character development evident.
The rest is mostly pretty cliched and unmemorable. (I do love Neil Gaiman's The Troll Bridge, but I've already read it in a different collection, so it doesn't count) ( )