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 G0d - 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
