Bedlam's Edge
by Mercedes Lackey (Editor, Contributor), Rosemary Edghill (Editor, Contributor)
Bedlam's Bard (Collections and Selections — anthology)
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre—where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modern city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar lineup of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxton, and more—including two new stories show more and an afterword by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular. show lessTags
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Not bad. I had read several of the stories in it, but not all. Some didn't work for me, but I generally enjoy urban fantasy, and there were some interesting viewpoints in it. I think my favorite was a Lackey story, "The Waters and the Wild" - which is funny because it ought to be very depressing and frustrating, but it isn't. Though I do want to know more about Kyle and what happens to him...
Using Mercedes Lackey's series of Elven Urban Fantasy as a springboard this is a series of stories by several authors using this as a springboard. It's a mixed bag of stories many of them quite interesting.
A fan of her series would love it, others might like it as an idea of what her world is like.
A fan of her series would love it, others might like it as an idea of what her world is like.
Review from library copy.
Not really worth purchasing, but good for reading from your Friendly Local Library.
Not really worth purchasing, but good for reading from your Friendly Local Library.
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Fantasy fiction author Mercedes Richie Lackey was born in Chicago on June 24, 1950, and she received a B.S. from Purdue University in 1972. She is also a professional lyricist and has rehabilitated raptors. Lackey started writing her own short stories when her favorite science fiction and fantasy authors weren't producing new books fast enough for show more her. She began writing professionally with the encouragement of author C. J. Cherryh, whom Lackey had met at a science fiction convention. Many of Lackey's books, including the Queen's Own trilogy, the Vows and Honor series, Valdemar: family Spies, and the Last Herald-Mage and Mage Winds trilogies, take place in the imaginary world of Valdemar. She has authored numerous series, including the Bardic Voices series and a series of occult mysteries featuring Diana Tregarde, a modern-day witch. Lackey enjoys collaborating and has co-written books with authors such as C.J. Cherryh, Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mark Shepherd, and Ru Emerson. Her title Redoubt made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Rosemary Edghill was born long enough ago to have seen Classic Trek on its first outing and to remember that she once thought Spock Must Die! to be great literature. As she aged, she put aside her fond dreams of taking over for Batman when he retired, and returned to her first love, writing. Her first SF sale (as eluki bes shahar) was the show more Hellflower series, in which Damon Runyon meets Doc Smith over at the old Bester place. Between books and short stories in every genre but the Western (several dozen so far), she's held the usual selection of odd and part-time writer jobs, including bookstore clerk, secretary, beta tester for computer software, graphic designer, book illustrator, library clerk, and administrative assistant for a non-profit arts organization. She can truthfully state that she once killed vampires for a living, and that without any knowledge of medicine has illustrated half-a-dozen medical textbooks show less
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- Original publication date
- 2005
- Disambiguation notice
- Anthology contains: Tom O'Bedlam's song / Anonymous -- Devil went down to Georgia / Mercedes Lackey -- Unleaving / India Edghill -- Old order / Michael Longcor -- Well met by moonlight / Diana L. Paxson -- The world's more fu... (show all)ll of weeping / Rosemary Edghill -- The waters and the wild / Mercedes Lackey -- The remover of difficulties / Ashley McConnell -- Bright as diamonds / Barb Caffrey with Michael B. Caffrey -- Bottle of djinn / Roberta Gellis -- Red fiddler / Dave Freer & Eric Flint -- Unnatural history / Sarah A. Hoyt -- All that jazz / Jenn Saint-John -- Six-shooter / Ellen Guon -- Mall elves and how they grew (essay) / Mercedes Lackey.
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