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Author: Jean Rabe | Website
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Hot and Steamy
From the co-editor of Steampunk'd comes an all-new collection of adventure and romance amid Victorian steampunk settings. Sparks fly in these original stories of a steam-driven airship searching for a lost city, a crazy inventor in a powered wheelchair with a plot to take over the world, and a love story set in an alternate history version of America. Adventure abounds in these stories of love, loss, and danger- and there is plenty of steam!
Reviewer: Aiobhan Belen
Review: Aug 8, 2011
Genre(s): Anthologies, Romance, Victorian, Steampunk
I decided to pick this book up out of sheer desperation. I am kind of burned out from reading only romance, erotica, and mainstream fiction for the last few months and I wanted to try something completely different for once. So when I saw the cover and read the synopsis for this book I thought that it would be a perfect addition to my library and decided to give this book a chance. I am glad that I did.
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Boondocks Fantasy
From vampires in the Appalachians and leprechauns in the Smokies to mermaids in the Mississippi and bloodthirsty trolls in an Alabama trailer park the South makes a unique setting for the 20 stories in this anthology of redneck vampires, werewolves, wizards, elves, and other creatures.
Featuring original stories by Gene Wolfe, Timothy Zahn, Chris Pierson, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Steven Savile, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Jay Lake, Anton Strout, and many more.
Reviewer: Roza
Review: Jan 31, 2011
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Hot damn, that was fun! Creepy, sweet, happy, sad, weird, and all around entertaining. If you like urban fantasy, these stories are for you. You get aliens from outer space next to Lake Things and elves. This is one good book, and I’m going to go look up several of the authors and see what they can write given more space. I wasn’t sure for the first few stories if they could keep up the enter
Timeshares
Jean Rabe (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
Sixteen original stories about taking your dream vacation-in any era you desire.
Take a vacation through time with the help of a Time Travel Agency offering excursions into the past and future. Readers will find themselves in exotic, adventurous locales-and in all manner of trouble and mysteries. And figures from the past will be able to squeak by the other way.
Picture Cleopatra in modern-day New York City, or Hannibal searching for elephants at Wisconsin's Circus World. And that's just the beginning of the thrills and danger...
Reviewer: Lexile
Review: Mar 1, 2010
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Anthologies are always hit or miss for me. Usually if I like the premise then I'm likely to find it harder to enjoy the individual stories. If I am only mildly interested in the premise and picking the book up more for the authors included, I fare far better. Such is the case with Timeshares. Six of the authors listed are of interest to me for various reasons and the premise was intere
Terribly Twisted Tales
From Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks, to Snow White, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and more, here are eighteen stories that take familiar fairy tales and twist them around to give them an entirely new slant. Any fan of far-out fantasy is sure to be delighted.
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Feb 15, 2010
Genre(s): Anthologies, Sci-Fi / Fantasy
As a huge fan of the original Grimm fairytales, dark and forbidding tales before Disney sanitzed them for children, Terribly Twisted Tales was a wonderfully, decadent treat.
Each short story was a retelling a childhood favorite, but reworked and retwisted as a new perspective on an old tale. The two that stood out as my absolute favorites were Once They Were Seven by Chris Pierson and The Adventures of the R
Spells of the City
Venture into Spells of the City, where a troll may be your toll collector on the George Washington Bridge...Harry the Book will be happy to place your best in a spellbinding alternative New York...a gargoyle finds himself left to a lonely rooftop existence when he's forced to live by his creator's rules...and leprechauns must become bank robbers to keep up with the demand for their gold.
Reviewer: Sherylyn
Review: Jan 18, 2010
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy
I liked this book okay. The major problem was just that the stories ended at bad points I think. I wanted to know more. But I guess that is the way with short stories, there seems to be always more to them that is not told.
The thing I liked the most about this book was the stories of Gargoyles. I have been fascinated by Gargoyles since I watched the cartoon that used to be on with the Gargoyle who f
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