A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic
by Michael Stearns (Editor)
Ottawa and the Valley (Fairy Dust, 13)
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Thirteen spellbinding tales that are an enchanting and fantastic brew of wonder and magic.Tags
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A collection of fantasy short stories. Patricia Wrede's "The 62 Curses of Caliph Arenschadd" has fun world-building. Charles de Lint's "Fairy Dust" is, like all his other work, filled with fascile moral conclusions and immature writing. I loved the main character in Will Shetterly's "The Princess Who Kicked Butt." Tappan King's "Come Hither" also has a very enjoyable main character (another self-sufficient girlchild).
I have always thought Bruce Coville is awesome, and he proves it yet again with the imaginative, very anti-war story "With His Head Tucked Under His Arm." Alan Smale's "The Breath of Princes" is a fantastic story in the same vein as [book: Dealing With Dragons] or [book: Dragon's Bait]. Speaking of Vande Velde's work, her show more short story "Lost Soul" is a creepy tale of a peasant seduced by the fey. show less
I have always thought Bruce Coville is awesome, and he proves it yet again with the imaginative, very anti-war story "With His Head Tucked Under His Arm." Alan Smale's "The Breath of Princes" is a fantastic story in the same vein as [book: Dealing With Dragons] or [book: Dragon's Bait]. Speaking of Vande Velde's work, her show more short story "Lost Soul" is a creepy tale of a peasant seduced by the fey. show less
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Well-established residents of the gaming world will find A Wizard's Dozen a pleasant reminder of the sense of wonder that first drew them toward fantasy. It really is a book meant to be shared, and those who understand it best will be the ones who buy copies to give away as well as to read.
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- Original publication date
- 1993
- Epigraph
- wizard's dozen: 1 : any magical number from eleven to fifteen 2 : the charmed numeral that gives a wizard's spell its power 3 : the number of teachers at a wiza... (show all)rds' school
- Dedication
- For my mother, Louise Magella Maheu
- First words
- The worst thing about Caliph Arenschadd is that he's a wizard.
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Literature Collections Collections of fiction
- LCC
- PZ5 .W7568 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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- 2
