Excalibur
by Richard Gilliam (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Edward E Kramer (Editor)
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This book contains a collection of stories based on the legends of King Arthur. The stories range in time from Camelot to the present day.Tags
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You'd think that two dozen stories, each touching somehow on the single most famous sword in all of legend, would make for a repetitive anthology. The editors of Excalibur, however, have neatly avoided this potential pitfall and provided readers with a selection of tales that ranges from mystical to romantic to wicked, with a couple of side trips into the absurd for good measure.
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Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Excalibur
- Original publication date
- 1995
- People/Characters
- King Arthur (Arthur Pendragon); Merlin
- Important places
- Camelot
- First words
- Answer: Excalibur.
What is the question? - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He emerged from his cell to bury her by her husband's side and pray at her tomb, but he did not emerge, men say, ever again.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This title contains the following short stories:
The question of the sword (poem) / Jane Yolen --
The God-sword / Diana L. Paxson --
Lassorio / Eric Lustbader --
Controlling the sword / Kristine Kathryn Rusch... (show all) --
Surgeon's steel / Diana Gabaldon --
Prayer of the knight of the sword / Nancy Holder --
Schoes of the one sword (poem) / T. Winter-Damon --
Grass Dancer / Owl Goingback --
All we know of heaven / Peter Crowther --
Passing / Charles De Lint --
Nights of the round table (poem) / Lawrence Schimel --
Here there be dragons? Marion Zimmer Bradley --
Goldie, Lox, and the three excalibearers / Esther M. Friesner. Silver, stone, and steel / Judith Tarr --
St. Paul's Churchyard, New Year's Day / Richard Lee Byers --
The other scabbard / Brad Linaweaver --
Hope's edge (poem) / Daniel H. Scheltema --
The walking dream / J.M. Morgan --
The scout, the slugger and the stripper / Randy Miller --
The weapon / Ardath Mayhar --
The sword in the net / Brad Strickland --
Once and future (poem) / Terry Tappouni --
Once and future / Mercedes Lackey --
Sword practice / Jody Lynn Nye --
Where bestowed / Susan Dexter --
Demon sword / Bill Fawcett --
Troubled waters / Susan Shwartz. Literary cubism saves the universe (poem) / Joe Haldeman --
Duty / Gary Gygax --
The epilogue of the sword / Darrell Schweitzer.
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087660837 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Fantasy Collections Themes and subjects Myths, legends and the supernatural
- LCC
- PS648 .A78 .E95 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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