Fantasy Masterworks 2006
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2006
Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pbk published March 2006 by Gollancz at £6.99
ISBN: 0 575 07874 x
It was just after midnight when the carnival train bringing Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show to Green Town, Illinois announced its arrival, the engine’s whistle shrieking, the show’s steam organ playing. For two young friends, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, the siren call of the carnival is irresistible. But these are no ordinary sideshows, no ordinary mazes and mirrors. In Ray Bradbury’s incomparable masterpiece the Shadow Show has come to destroy every life it touches with its sinister mysteries.
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
‘I believe that Something Wicked This Way Comes, a darkly poetic tale ... is probably Bradbury’s best work… [he] carries his story off with guts and beauty and panache’ Stephen King
‘Ray Bradbury’s most poignant evocation of the hopes and frustrations of small-town life’ The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
‘One of our eminent dreamers… the Hans Christian. Andersen of the jet age’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century.
This year is his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of The Martian Chronicles which established his reputation as the most important figure in the development of science fiction as a literary genre. He is the author of over 500 published works, including novels, short stories and screenplays which include Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Illustrated Man. Bradbury's work evokes the themes of racism, censorship, technology, nuclear war, humanistic values and the importance of imagination. He has won many awards and accolades for his writing; possibly the most unusual was having a crater on the Moon named after his novel, Dandelion Wine.
Ray Bradbury has also written for the theater and cinema - including the screenplay of John Huston's classic adaptation of Moby Dick.
He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife.
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Patricia A. McKillip
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Pbk published November 2005 by Gollancz at £7.99
ISBN: 0 575 07765 4
Sybel, the beautiful great-granddaughter of the wizard Heald, has grown up on Eld Mountain with only the fantastic beasts summoned there by wizardry as companions. She cares nothing for humans until, when she is sixteen, a baby is brought for her to raise, a baby who awakens emotions that she has never known before. He is Tamlorn, the only son of King Drede, and, inevitably, Sybel becomes entangled in the human world of love, war and revenge - only her beasts can save her from the ultimate destruction.
The Series
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
‘Rich and regal’ The New York Times
‘Magnificent, many-coloured prose ... tells this amazing story of human and Faerie love’ Diana Waggoner
‘This magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language’ Publishers Weekly
‘There are no better writers than Patricia A. McKillip’ Stephen R. Donaldson
About The Author
Patricia Anne McKillip was born in 1948 on February 29 in Salem, Oregon, and was educated at San Jose State University in California, receiving her BA in 1971 and her MA in 1973. Her early works, The House on Parchment Street and The Throme of the Enill of Sherill, both published in 1973, were for children. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974) was also published for the juvenile market but won the first World Fantasy Award in 1975 as best novel. After writing the Riddle-Master trilogy, she wrote Stepping from the Shadows (1982) a contemporary adult novel about the making of a fantasy writer and turned away from the genre for some years. Since then she has returned to fantasy with a number of fine books, including The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995) and Winter Rose (1996). After living in San Francisco for years, she bought farmhouse in Roxbury, New York, where she still lives.
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