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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy
A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces!It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.
512 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2001
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Mike Ashley
278 books130 followersMichael Raymond Donald Ashley is the author and editor of over sixty books that in total have sold over a million copies worldwide. He lives in Chatham, Kent.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
December 5, 2023
500+ pages of awesome comic fantasy, that promises a few hours of top quality entertainment.
And sure, not every story will be to the liking of everybode, but certainly everybode will find at least some stories to be highly enjoyable.
Some authors are household names (John Cleese and Connie Booth e.g.) others had been lost in time had it not been for editor Mike Ashley. The small biography that he (Mike) added to each story is both informative and entertaining in itself.
This book clearly illustrates how broad Fantasy actually is - not even referring to the definition of grandmaster Terry Pratchet who calls it everything coming from the imagination, thus hereby reducing all other genres like thrillers, SciFi, romance,... to the class of sub-genres.
The Mammoth Book collection is huge, Comic Fantasy is limited (thanks to Mike Ashley) to several copies which are must-reads for every Fantasy & Humor lover.
And sure, not every story will be to the liking of everybode, but certainly everybode will find at least some stories to be highly enjoyable.
Some authors are household names (John Cleese and Connie Booth e.g.) others had been lost in time had it not been for editor Mike Ashley. The small biography that he (Mike) added to each story is both informative and entertaining in itself.
This book clearly illustrates how broad Fantasy actually is - not even referring to the definition of grandmaster Terry Pratchet who calls it everything coming from the imagination, thus hereby reducing all other genres like thrillers, SciFi, romance,... to the class of sub-genres.
The Mammoth Book collection is huge, Comic Fantasy is limited (thanks to Mike Ashley) to several copies which are must-reads for every Fantasy & Humor lover.
September 4, 2024
A collection of mostly British authors with some older, generally unknown writers. Nice gathering of puns.
June 10, 2012
I was going to give this three stars, but it turns out all the stories I really liked weren't actually in this book at all. So there you have it. Rubbish/quality ratio isn't good, but like other anthologies of this type there's some decent stuff. Worth a flick through.
March 2, 2013
Some of the stories were pretty lame and hard to follow.. I didn't even know why I bother finishing it to the very end. Contraversary, there were like two or three good stories that kept my wish for going further witht the pages...
August 31, 2010
The stories range from dumb to quite humorous.
It's worth a read.
It's worth a read.
June 24, 2014
Algumas histórias até tinham alguma piada mas na maioria eram demasiado aborrecidas e não despertavam suficiente interesse para serem lidas até ao fim. Algo decepcionante
September 16, 2015
The very first story by John Clease is pretty awesome. So is the story "Dragonet". The rest are hit and miss. I ended up having to return it to the library before I could finish it all.
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