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Elsewhere #2
Elsewhere Vol. II
Come journey through realms of twilight and enchantment that lie just beyond the everyday world... Elsewhere.
388 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1982
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Terri Windling
120 books711 followersTerri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her anthology The Armless Maiden, a fiction collection for adult survivors of child abuse, appeared on the shortlist for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She was also honored with SFWA's Soltice Award in 2010, a lifetime achievement award for "significant contributions to the speculative fiction field as a writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor". Windling's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.
In the American publishing field, Windling is one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s—first through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines; secondly as the creator of the Fairy Tales series of novels (featuring reinterpretations of classic fairy tale themes by Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, Pamela Dean, Patricia C. Wrede, Charles de Lint, and others); and thirdly as the editor of over thirty anthologies of magical fiction. She is also recognized as one of the founders of the urban fantasy genre, having published and promoted the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the form.
With Ellen Datlow, Windling edited 16 volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (1986–2003), an anthology series that reached beyond the boundaries of genre fantasy to incorporate magic realism, surrealism, poetry, and other forms of magical literature. Datlow and Windling also edited the Snow White, Blood Red series of literary fairy tales for adult readers, as well as many anthologies of myth & fairy tale inspired fiction for younger readers (such as The Green Man, The Faery Reel, and The Wolf at the Door). Windling also created and edited the Borderland series for teenage readers.
As an author, Windling's fiction includes The Wood Wife (winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year) and several children's books: The Raven Queen, The Changeling, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, The Winter Child, and The Faeries of Spring Cottage. Her essays on myth, folklore, magical literature and art have been widely published in newsstand magazines, academic journals, art books, and anthologies. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes.
As an artist, Windling specializes in work inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her art has been exhibited across the US, as well as in the UK and France.
Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, an organization dedicated to myth-inspired arts, and co-editor (with Midori Snyder) of The Journal of Mythic Arts. She also sits on the board of the Mythic Imagination Institute. A former New Yorker, Windling spend many years in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives in Devon, England. She is married to dramatist Howard Gayton, co-director of the Ophaboom Theatre Company.
In the American publishing field, Windling is one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s—first through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines; secondly as the creator of the Fairy Tales series of novels (featuring reinterpretations of classic fairy tale themes by Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, Pamela Dean, Patricia C. Wrede, Charles de Lint, and others); and thirdly as the editor of over thirty anthologies of magical fiction. She is also recognized as one of the founders of the urban fantasy genre, having published and promoted the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the form.
With Ellen Datlow, Windling edited 16 volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (1986–2003), an anthology series that reached beyond the boundaries of genre fantasy to incorporate magic realism, surrealism, poetry, and other forms of magical literature. Datlow and Windling also edited the Snow White, Blood Red series of literary fairy tales for adult readers, as well as many anthologies of myth & fairy tale inspired fiction for younger readers (such as The Green Man, The Faery Reel, and The Wolf at the Door). Windling also created and edited the Borderland series for teenage readers.
As an author, Windling's fiction includes The Wood Wife (winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year) and several children's books: The Raven Queen, The Changeling, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, The Winter Child, and The Faeries of Spring Cottage. Her essays on myth, folklore, magical literature and art have been widely published in newsstand magazines, academic journals, art books, and anthologies. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes.
As an artist, Windling specializes in work inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her art has been exhibited across the US, as well as in the UK and France.
Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, an organization dedicated to myth-inspired arts, and co-editor (with Midori Snyder) of The Journal of Mythic Arts. She also sits on the board of the Mythic Imagination Institute. A former New Yorker, Windling spend many years in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives in Devon, England. She is married to dramatist Howard Gayton, co-director of the Ophaboom Theatre Company.
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December 1, 2023
Collections are so hard to rate; a few are five star rippers that you love. Some are meh, that you can't care one way or another and yet others you have. There are - count them - THIRTY THREE - items in this collection, many poetry most of which I did not love a couple I adored... There is exquisite artwork courtesy of Terri Windling one of the editors. I did a longer review on Youtube so this is in brief:
Introduction, 5* top notch; thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of story types
Junction's Pleasure by Richard Englehart 5* An aging Magician who thinks he has nothing more to learn finds a core part of his humanity taught him by a talking raven.
The Ern Queen by Jane Newbold 4* a detached storytelling method, gives us a good, human to animal story with a nod to going a-viking.
Amigo Helliotropo by Felix Marti-Ibanez.3* DNF at first try, glad I went back to it though.
The Golden Goat by Michael de Larrabeiti. 3* A good, solid fairy-tale style, cautionary tale about trusting the supernatural and it has a Spanish/Moorish influence which gave it some zing.
#7 wsa another meh poem.
The Fallen Country is an excellent little story 4* where fantasy and child abuse intersect in a vivid story. I have read plenty of stories where cold is used as a metaphor for dealing with pain, but the ice dragon in this is a favourite. It must be a theme as it is followed by a poem I did actually really like; Small Dragon 4*.
The Twelve Dancing Princesses! 5* This poem is great and it has stayed with me through the years. I even copied it out, but not in it's entirety. Really good to read again and every bit as vivid as I remembered.
The Courtship of Mr Lyon might well be the first Angela Carter I ever read. 3* A beauty and the Beast retelling it is detached and disturbing in equal measures, consistent with the authors work in general.
A meh poem about a swan.
In The Hall of Grief by Jane Yolen (5*) is another one I have remembered well, and have re-read a lot. An older woman is looking back over her life in a matriarchal society where Grieving is an honoured profession and where she was famous for her threnodys. A really interesting work probably influenced by biblical/antiquity times when grieving was a profession.
Poem. Meh.
The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World. “... sink easily into the deepest waves where fish are blind and divers die of nostalgia...” This is the Gabriel Garcia Marquez I expected but did not find in Love in the time of Cholera. I think I remembered that I had read stores of his before. Beautiful and lush and 5*
Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote a wonderful, funny, wild tale of Welsh fairies who sing a mountain away. I don't remember this story at all, but I loved it: Visitors To A Castle 5*
A Tourist Camped On A Donegal Field. By Bellamy Bach. A humorous poem about a human catching a Leprechaun for gain, and not at all what one might expect. 4*
Gran and the Roaring Boys. By Jenny Sullivan – now this one I did remember, another nice, witchy story I had forgotten that it had a Welsh flavour, or maybe last time I read it I did not know what 'Boreda' meant. 5*
Another, rather pointless poem.
The Little Dirty Girl by Joanna Russ. This is a very Joanna Russ story. I did remember it but I feel like it might say more about the author than about the story, vivid writing. Very strongly Seattle based. Makes you think.
A Young Man Gleaming White by Joao Gulmaraes Rosa, translated by Barbara Shelby. This was a rather nice story about a mysterious young man who appears after a disaster. Is he an Angel? A Saint? An Alien? An odd and absorbing little story.
Blood and Dreams by Richard Monaco – A MARVELOUS little story about Percival from King Arthurs court who got sick of being a virtual assassin, so he told King Arthur where he could shove his round table. Only then, as he is innocently trying to ride home, he got caught up in witches and bandits who were bent on making a try for the Grail. I loved it! So irreverent. 5*
The Vanishing Trolls by Gaird Wallig, a great, Norse inspired story about a Grandfather who uses Trolls to trick his little Granddaughter into behaving – or is that he is doing? A very tricksie story, with an ambiguous/surprise ending that I loved. 4*
The Healer by Robin McKinley. Robin McKinley is a favourite author... this one is a kind of standard medieval fantasy, but at the end it turns into a Damar story. Anyone who loves Damar with enjoy the brief appearance of Luthe. 3*
Patricia A McKillip contributed The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath. Medieval fantasy, on a planet with a sneaky two suns at the beginning. I think this is a me problem, (possibly because I am currently reading the Silent Spring by Carson) but this feels like one persons hubris about to cause ecological destruction for personal gain. Which will leave all the residents of the island homeless and jobless. Don't know if that is the authors intent. If so, congrats. Left a bitter nasty taste in the mouth, but I'm sure it will appeal to some people, it is very prettily written.
33) Fritz Leiber's The Moon Porthole. Is delightful, reminiscent of The Green Millennium, the first Leiber I ever read. 5*
See? This is not a review, this is a list. They are not fun to write and I suspect not fun to read. If you bore with me this far - Congratulations!
You may see an extended version on YouTube, it should load in a couple of hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUoO...
Introduction, 5* top notch; thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of story types
Junction's Pleasure by Richard Englehart 5* An aging Magician who thinks he has nothing more to learn finds a core part of his humanity taught him by a talking raven.
The Ern Queen by Jane Newbold 4* a detached storytelling method, gives us a good, human to animal story with a nod to going a-viking.
Amigo Helliotropo by Felix Marti-Ibanez.3* DNF at first try, glad I went back to it though.
The Golden Goat by Michael de Larrabeiti. 3* A good, solid fairy-tale style, cautionary tale about trusting the supernatural and it has a Spanish/Moorish influence which gave it some zing.
#7 wsa another meh poem.
The Fallen Country is an excellent little story 4* where fantasy and child abuse intersect in a vivid story. I have read plenty of stories where cold is used as a metaphor for dealing with pain, but the ice dragon in this is a favourite. It must be a theme as it is followed by a poem I did actually really like; Small Dragon 4*.
The Twelve Dancing Princesses! 5* This poem is great and it has stayed with me through the years. I even copied it out, but not in it's entirety. Really good to read again and every bit as vivid as I remembered.
The Courtship of Mr Lyon might well be the first Angela Carter I ever read. 3* A beauty and the Beast retelling it is detached and disturbing in equal measures, consistent with the authors work in general.
A meh poem about a swan.
In The Hall of Grief by Jane Yolen (5*) is another one I have remembered well, and have re-read a lot. An older woman is looking back over her life in a matriarchal society where Grieving is an honoured profession and where she was famous for her threnodys. A really interesting work probably influenced by biblical/antiquity times when grieving was a profession.
Poem. Meh.
The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World. “... sink easily into the deepest waves where fish are blind and divers die of nostalgia...” This is the Gabriel Garcia Marquez I expected but did not find in Love in the time of Cholera. I think I remembered that I had read stores of his before. Beautiful and lush and 5*
Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote a wonderful, funny, wild tale of Welsh fairies who sing a mountain away. I don't remember this story at all, but I loved it: Visitors To A Castle 5*
A Tourist Camped On A Donegal Field. By Bellamy Bach. A humorous poem about a human catching a Leprechaun for gain, and not at all what one might expect. 4*
Gran and the Roaring Boys. By Jenny Sullivan – now this one I did remember, another nice, witchy story I had forgotten that it had a Welsh flavour, or maybe last time I read it I did not know what 'Boreda' meant. 5*
Another, rather pointless poem.
The Little Dirty Girl by Joanna Russ. This is a very Joanna Russ story. I did remember it but I feel like it might say more about the author than about the story, vivid writing. Very strongly Seattle based. Makes you think.
A Young Man Gleaming White by Joao Gulmaraes Rosa, translated by Barbara Shelby. This was a rather nice story about a mysterious young man who appears after a disaster. Is he an Angel? A Saint? An Alien? An odd and absorbing little story.
Blood and Dreams by Richard Monaco – A MARVELOUS little story about Percival from King Arthurs court who got sick of being a virtual assassin, so he told King Arthur where he could shove his round table. Only then, as he is innocently trying to ride home, he got caught up in witches and bandits who were bent on making a try for the Grail. I loved it! So irreverent. 5*
The Vanishing Trolls by Gaird Wallig, a great, Norse inspired story about a Grandfather who uses Trolls to trick his little Granddaughter into behaving – or is that he is doing? A very tricksie story, with an ambiguous/surprise ending that I loved. 4*
The Healer by Robin McKinley. Robin McKinley is a favourite author... this one is a kind of standard medieval fantasy, but at the end it turns into a Damar story. Anyone who loves Damar with enjoy the brief appearance of Luthe. 3*
Patricia A McKillip contributed The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath. Medieval fantasy, on a planet with a sneaky two suns at the beginning. I think this is a me problem, (possibly because I am currently reading the Silent Spring by Carson) but this feels like one persons hubris about to cause ecological destruction for personal gain. Which will leave all the residents of the island homeless and jobless. Don't know if that is the authors intent. If so, congrats. Left a bitter nasty taste in the mouth, but I'm sure it will appeal to some people, it is very prettily written.
33) Fritz Leiber's The Moon Porthole. Is delightful, reminiscent of The Green Millennium, the first Leiber I ever read. 5*
See? This is not a review, this is a list. They are not fun to write and I suspect not fun to read. If you bore with me this far - Congratulations!
You may see an extended version on YouTube, it should load in a couple of hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUoO...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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