Xanadu 3 Book

Publication of Xanadu marks the beginning of an original anthology series that will include brand-new stories by some of the finest writers in the world. This volume opens with "The Poacher" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a fairytale in the grand tradition. Xanadu also includes "It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea," a new poem by William Stafford, one of the best-known poets in America; "The Hound of Merlin" by Eleanor Arnason, who won both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Tiptree Award in 1992; "The Perfectly Round Bagel" by Robert Abel, who won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989; "To Scale" by Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress; "Still Life with Woman and Apple" by Leslea Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies; "Unnalash" by Tanith Lee; "The Pale Thin God" by Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick; "Gravity" by Pat Schneider, poet and playwright; "Time Travel, The Artifact, and A Famous Historical Personage" by Minnesota Book Award-winner Will Shetterly; and a dozen other ventures into the realms of magic, including stories by Lisa Tuttle, Steven Brust, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Gardner Dozois, and a new poem, "The Ring at Yarrow," by Jane Yolen herself. Contents: Xanadu and porlock, too / Jane Yolen -- Dairy queen / Shira Daemon -- The harmony / Paul Levinson -- Residual Flight / Richard Rowand -- Recent collections / Ruth Berman -- Mollusk dreams / Nancy Etchemendy -- Up the mountain / Sue Y. Wilson -- Fortune tellers / Laurie A. Taylor -- East of the sun and west of the moon / Claire P. Brown -- Witch watch / Anna Kirwan-Vogel -- The apple golem / Bruce H. Rogers -- Clay / Linda Mannheim -- Charon's wife / Julie Kinney -- Nvumbi / Steve R. Tem -- Tomorrow never knows / Mark A. Garland -- Xanadu / Christine Crow -- The man who loved the river / Jo Clayton -- The night journey / Terri Windling -- A report concerning the predator population in the northern part of the forest / Jeremy Beckett -- The champion / Tanith Lee -- Old woman who created life / Josepha Sherman -- Nettie's garden / Elise Matthesen -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Swan/Princess / Jane Yolen -- The lizard queen / Michelle Stone -- Two poems / Brenda D. Crank -- Jo's hair / Susan Palwick -- The hunter and the stag / Astrid Julian -- Mothballs / Marvin Bell -- Armdale rotary horse / Malcolm Beckett -- Word drift / Jeanette Ingold -- The Asgard philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture / Lawrence Schimel -- Gil / Dan Perez -- Gord and fnord go to the zoo / Charles Von Rospach -- Calliope / Micole Sudberg -- Your essential unsung hero / Nancy Kilpatrick.