Fantasy: The Best of 2001

The first of the iBooks Year's Best Fantasy series, and a good book, too, making it over the 3.50 mark at 3.55, and with no dodgy stories.

Quite a pleasing volume, even if no standout quality stories.

Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Bones of the Earth - Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Legerdemain - Jack O'Connell
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Diving the Coolidge - Brian A. Hopkins
Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Mould of Form - Rosemary Edghill
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Eternity and Afterward - Lucius Shepard
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Wolves Till the World Goes Down - Greg van Eekhout
Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Lady of the Winds - Poul Anderson
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Ave de Paso - Catherine Asaro
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Grass - Lawrence Miles
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Slipshod at the Edge of the Universe - Robert Thurston
Fantasy Best of 2001 : Hell Is the Absence of God - Ted Chiang

Local mastery.

4 out of 5

Refugee book experience recovery.

3.5 out of 5

Ghost rescue, with cat.

4 out of 5

Goodfellow pirate Hooked.

3.5 out of 5

Magic mafiya's dead dude disco.

4 out of 5

No End Of the World Blues.

4 out of 5

"Aiala’s glance lingered more than it pierced. “I do not really wish to destroy you, Cappen Varra,” she told him slowly. “You have a rather charming way about you. But—should you disappoint me—you will understand that one does have one’s position to maintain.”"

3.5 out of 5

Earth Lord demons.

3 out of 5

Presidential mammoth herd.

3 out of 5

We might find out. Or not.

3 out of 5

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