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The Fantasy & Science Fiction Book of Unicorns: Volume Two
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Peter. S. Beagle * Jane Yolen * Stephen R. Donaldson * Mike Resnick * Karen Anderson * Doris Pitkin Buck * Jack C. Haldeman II * Robert Arthur
Three unicorns and a great lady living in a garden are swept away by a transformative flood. A man with a surgically-implanted diagnostic hardware finds that he is turning into something no longer human. Olfert Dapper—a seventeenth century Dutch writer, physician, and expert charlatan—finds a lovely reason to mend his ways. A unicorn hunter relates tips and tales from several of his fallen comrades. A boy home from school in Indiana finds a mysterious piece of pointed ivory, almost but not quite like an elephant’s tusk.
Peter. S. Beagle * Jane Yolen * Stephen R. Donaldson * Mike Resnick * Karen Anderson * Doris Pitkin Buck * Jack C. Haldeman II * Robert Arthur
Three unicorns and a great lady living in a garden are swept away by a transformative flood. A man with a surgically-implanted diagnostic hardware finds that he is turning into something no longer human. Olfert Dapper—a seventeenth century Dutch writer, physician, and expert charlatan—finds a lovely reason to mend his ways. A unicorn hunter relates tips and tales from several of his fallen comrades. A boy home from school in Indiana finds a mysterious piece of pointed ivory, almost but not quite like an elephant’s tusk.
115 pages, ebook
First published April 19, 2017
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About the author
Gordon van Gelder
308 books27 followersGordon Van Gelder (born 1966) is an American science fiction editor. From 1997 until 2014, Van Gelder was editor and later publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, for which he has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form. He was also a managing editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1993, for which he was nominated for the Hugo Award a number of times. As of January 2015, Van Gelder has stepped down as editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction in favour of Charles Coleman Finlay, but remains publisher of the magazine.
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May 14, 2017
There were 6 stories and 2 poems included in this anthology - of the stories I enjoyed two, liked two well enough, and wasn't very thrilled with two. And I wasn't wowed by the two poems...
The two poems were:
"Sportsman's Difficulty" by Doris Pitkin Buck
"The Unicorn Trade" by Karen Anderson
The two stories I enjoyed:
"Olfert Dapper's Day" by Peter S. Beagle - a con man isn't reformed, but is changed
"Miracle on Main Street" by Robert Arthur - a boys wish comes true and is highly enlightening
The two that I liked well enough:
"Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera" by Mike Resnick - sitting in on a class lecture
"Mythological Beast" by Stephen R. Donaldson - the future needs something different
The two I wasn't really a fan of:
"The Black Horn" by Jack Dann - dirty old man gets what's coming to him
"The Lady's Garden" by Jane Yolen - man destroys everything again
The two poems were:
"Sportsman's Difficulty" by Doris Pitkin Buck
"The Unicorn Trade" by Karen Anderson
The two stories I enjoyed:
"Olfert Dapper's Day" by Peter S. Beagle - a con man isn't reformed, but is changed
"Miracle on Main Street" by Robert Arthur - a boys wish comes true and is highly enlightening
The two that I liked well enough:
"Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera" by Mike Resnick - sitting in on a class lecture
"Mythological Beast" by Stephen R. Donaldson - the future needs something different
The two I wasn't really a fan of:
"The Black Horn" by Jack Dann - dirty old man gets what's coming to him
"The Lady's Garden" by Jane Yolen - man destroys everything again
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