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The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales by [Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe]

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This “first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales” (Locus Magazine) features an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries. From the Brothers Grimm to the Countess d’Aulnoy, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Anderson, storytellers have crafted all sorts of tales that have always found a place in our hearts.

Now a new generation of storytellers has taken up the mantle that the masters created and shaped their stories into something startling and electrifying.

Packed with award-winning authors, this “fresh, diverse” (Library Journal) anthology explores an array of fairy tales in startling and innovative ways, in genres and settings both traditional and unusual, including science fiction, western, and post-apocalyptic as well as traditional fantasy and contemporary horror.

From the woods to the stars, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales takes readers on a journey at once unexpected and familiar, as a diverse group of writers explore some of our most beloved tales in new ways across genres and styles.

Contains stories by: Charlie Jane Anders, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, Margo Lanagan, Marjorie Liu, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Sofia Samatar, Karin Tidbeck, Catherynne M. Valente, and Genevieve Valentine.

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Gallery / Saga Press
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Oct. 18 2016
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“A classy, smart, and entertaining volume of stories put together with consummate care—and featuring the best and most exciting fantasy writers working in the field today.” -- Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times-bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy

"The modern revival of fairy tale fiction for adults began in the 20th century (with the stories of Angela Carter and Tanith Lee), and The Starlit Wood is proof that the revival is still going strong. Editors Parisien and Wolfe have brought a wide range of writers together to blaze new trails through the dark of the woods. Whether you're passionate about fairy tales, like I am, or haven't read them since childhood, I recommend this excellent anthology. I simply loved it." -- Terri Windling, World Fantasy Award-winning editor of the Snow White, Blood Red series

"Lots of strange and wonderful goings-on in The Starlit Wood. Fairy tales you thought you’d left behind in childhood are back in some very poignant, sly and original versions that will touch the Wow in most readers." -- Jonathan Carroll, World Fantasy-Award winning author

"This anthology is consistent throughout, with well-crafted writing and a tantalizing taste of each author’s unique journey into reimagining classic fairy tales for a new audience." ― Booklist

"A great pick for readers looking for a fresh, diverse spin on standard fairy tales." ― Library Journal

"A rich sample of what awaits us in the world of fairy tales...well worth making time to read." ― Publishers Weekly

"The best original fantasy anthology of the year." -- Jonathan Strahan, World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning editor

"A first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales...quite lovely." ― Locus Magazine

"The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe is one of the best fantasy compilations of the year." ― Locus Magazine

"If you're a fan of fairy tale retellings, you'll probably want to pick up The Starlit Wood. [It] offers ample delights, both profound and humorous. It's an excellent entry into the retelling tradition, tuned for the current literary moment." ― Locus Magazine

"The table of contents alone reads like a who's who of fantasy authors...Highly recommended." ― F&SF

"An incredible, genre-blurring collection of retold fairy tales, featuring well-published luminaries and up-and-coming voices...Like those oft-told tales of old, The Starlit Wood is a volume readers will want to return to often, and it deserves a place on every bookshelf left wanting a touch of the magical." ― B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog

"If you were ever fascinated by fairy tales as a child, if you have ever read a fairy tale to a child and watched their face light up, this is an anthology for you." -- The Little Red Reviewer --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Dominik Parisien is an editor, poet, and writer. He is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Mythic Dream, Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood. Together their anthologies have won the Shirley Jackson Award and have been finalists for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Locus Award. He also won the Hugo, British Fantasy, and Aurora Award for co-editing Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction with Elsa Sjunneson. His debut poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual French Canadian. He lives in Toronto.

Navah Wolfe is a Hugo Award–nominated editor at Saga Press and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream, along with Dominik Parisien. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she worked on many bestselling books, including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor, The Pura Belpré Award, The Pen/Faulkner Award, The Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Schneider Family Award. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

Seanan McGuire: The story of “Little Red Riding Hood” has always had a special place in my heart—one that was solidified forever when I played her several times as a teenager in productions of Into the Woods. She is young; she is innocent; she is unprepared. Like most people who adore the story and grew up steeped in the modern mythology of horror movies and urban fantasy, I thought, “What if she was the werewolf?” and put together a whole series pitch; sadly, as I was in high school at the time, it never went anywhere, but still. I love Red, and when I was asked to be in this anthology, I leapt at the chance to tell her story again. I also love horror movies, but at this point, a werewolf Red seemed predictable. At the same time, her story is inherently one of betrayal by someone who was trusted, however unwisely, and of attaining adulthood through a single trip through the woods. It seemed natural to turn the story on its ear, to turn trees into endless sand, to turn men into wolves, and to let Red cut her own path for once. I think it’s recognizable, and in the end, that’s what matters about fairy tales: that they use different codes to tell the same story, and still bring you out the other side. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

From the Author

Dominik Parisien is an editor, poet, and writer. He has worked on several anthologies with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, including The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, and The Bestiary. He is the editor for Clockwork Canada, an anthology of Canadian steampunk, and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream, along with Navah Wolfe. Dominik is also the poetry editor for Postscripts to Darkness, and was an editorial assistant for Weird Tales. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Shock Totem, Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, and other venues.

Navah Wolfe is a Hugo Award–nominated editor at Saga Press and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream, along with Dominik Parisien. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she worked on many bestselling books, including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor, The Pura Belpré Award, The Pen/Faulkner Award, The Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Schneider Family Award. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BKR14M4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery / Saga Press; Reprint edition (Oct. 18 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5993 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 401 pages

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Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author and critic: her short fiction has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, while her poetry has won the Rhysling award three times. She is the author of THE HONEY MONTH, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and writes the OTHERWORLDLY column for the New York Times Book Review. She's the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, an epistolary time-travelling spy vs spy novella. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com, or on Twitter @tithenai.
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bunnyslippers

I loved it. This is the book I'll be giving ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 20, 2017

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I loved it. This is the book I'll be giving out at Christmas. I now have a number of new authors to follow.

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There were some stories that I really did not like, and then others that were so incredible that ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 27, 2017

This is definitely not a book for young children, similar to all other fairy tales.
There were some stories that I really did not like, and then others that were so incredible that they held me entranced throughout, and are the reason for the high rating of this book.
100% worth reading.

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There were some stories that I really did not like, and then others that were so incredible that ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 27, 2017

This is definitely not a book for young children, similar to all other fairy tales.
There were some stories that I really did not like, and then others that were so incredible that they held me entranced throughout, and are the reason for the high rating of this book.
100% worth reading.

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Rosemary Adams

Not great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2020

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Bit disappointed in the stories and the book itself fell appart

A.S.

If you love fairy tales...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2020

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... you will love this collection of old fairy tales with a new twist. Enjoyed all the different angles the stories were now told in.

柔術研究員

Awesome

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 13, 2017

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This book is absolutely awesome!

It is beautifully made, a real pleasure to watch and also very fascinating to read!

Eric Juneau

Ick

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2020

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When they say fairy tales retold, they don’t mean “Rapunzel in middle school” or “Cinderella in cyberpunk“. This is more “crank up the maturity by adding sex, drugs, and woman abuse” type of retelling. The themes are skewed toward “men are the devil, women are helpless”. The writing is parched and lifeless and bleak. “The man put a seed in her belly. She lay there while he lay on top of her and did his thing.” And I mean literally using the terms “did his thing”.

Everything screams “I AM WOMAN” and “my character is defined by my womanhood. Whether I spread my legs and let a man on top of me or a take a lover (male or female because love should be free) or I’m a woman in a man’s role. I scream womanness and I have no point beyond that but to be a woman and exist in relationship to men.”

I get that lots of fairy tales are about women suffering due to the actions of men. But when you’re revamping those tales for current sensibilities, they don’t all have to turn it on the same head. Viewing everything from the same lens is dull. Plus it makes everyone unlikable. And I certainly don’t want to read about it over and over.

Especially the female authors. They treat their stories like they’re an artsy short film–all experimental and pretentious. Some of them call it “playing with form”. I call it choosing form over function. Construct over content. Should a collection of short stories really be your experimental ground?

Oh, and two of the stories are of the “set in a world from another story I wrote” variety, and I HATE that. Making your short story as if it’s an advertisement for your other book series. No wonder short stories fell out of favor.

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Juliet

Dark Twists of Fairy Tale Empowerment

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2016

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This book was a great gift to myself. I'm thrilled by the creative approaches to to the classic fairy tales. As I read, I can feel the stories supplant some of the cultural narratives in my consciousness related to gender (as great feminist literature does). The introduction by Dominik Parison and Navah Wolf talks about how the classic wooded environments, which represented mystery and fear in the days of old fairy tales, have been replaced with various other environments the authors explore. While I have not read the whole book yet, the stories I have experienced took my breath away, particularly the first by Seanan McGuire, "In the Desert Like a Bone," which she positions as a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story and which contains a dark twist of empowerment. I wish this some of these stories had existed when I was younger--as dark as they can sometimes be (just as the original fairy tales were). They would have given me a profound sense of hope and will that I needed at the time. I have kept all my childhood fairy tale books, just as markers of a time and influence on the shaping of a feminine identity that continues to transform over time. I'm convinced that the woods still are, in childhood consciousness, a place of mystery and fear, the place beyond which they are told they should not roam, in a world that can be devouring. Many women have been "devoured" there and are seeking to become whole again. Instead of cautionary tales, this book is full of character-building triumphs. It's also physically beautiful, with raised artwork on the cover. It looks, feels, and smells like an old book, and it will stay on my shelf for a long time. I will also give it as gifts to women in my family.

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