The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: C & R Crime
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472114906

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A new collection of magic and mayhem from fantasy's funniest, wackiest writers, including Harlan Ellison, Esther Friesner, Neil Gailman, Craig Shaw Gardner, Harry Harrison, Tom Hold and Julia Mandala.

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Mammoth
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472114930

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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.

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472114809

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This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one. It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II
Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1999
Genre: Fantasy fiction
ISBN:

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Fantasy can be downright funny! To prove it, editor Mike Ashley has compiled 35 short stories for a second mammoth volume, featuring fantasy's funniest, wackiest writers.

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2011-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780332823

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In extreme fantasy anything can happen. In Mike Ashley's breathtaking new anthology the only rules are those the writer makes - these are stories to liberate both the writers' and readers' imagination. They will take you to hell and back (literally - two of the stories involve hell in ways never explored before). For too long fantasy fiction has become synonymous with vast heroic-fantasy adventures in imitation of The Lord of the Rings, but the genre has always been far greater than dwarves and elves. Today many writers are rediscovering the wider world of fantasy and creating bold new ideas or magically reworking older arts. Ashley selects 25 stories by the likes of Orson Scott Card, Paul Di Filippo, A. A. Attanasio, Michael Swanwick, Christopher Priest and Peter Crowther, arranged in ascending order of 'extremeness'. The anthology opens with a story that takes us beyond Middle Earth in 'Senator Bilbo' by Andy Duncan - showing what happens when a radical descendant of his famous namesake tries to introduce immigration control - and reaches the ultimate in 'The Dark One' by A. A. Attanasio, a rite of passage story where you, the reader, discover you are being tested to become the successor to Satan. Other stories include: A man with a terminal disease looks for a cure in a world where Edward Lear meets Lewis Carroll. A man decides to banish all language. A tour of Hell by the boatman himself. The great comic stars of Hollywood find themselves seeking their lost world. A magical experiment recreates the Crucifixion. Suddenly all colour drains out of the world. A magical recreation of Chinese fantasy cinema where a magician and his adepts fight the flying dead.

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy
Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780786705337

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The very best in whimsical and hilarious fantasy writing, this collection features specially commissioned stories by such masters of the fanciful imagination as Rabelais and Swift, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, P.G. Wodehouse, and James Thurber.

The Mammoth Book of Sorceror's Tales

The Mammoth Book of Sorceror's Tales
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780333617

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Bursting with the same magic that has brought a whole new following to fantasy, this anthology combines the excitement of the Harry Potter phenomenon with the appeal of Lord of the Rings, the ingenuity of the Discworld series and the adventure of the Conan stories. It features a range of light and dark fantasies - from quests, games and monsters, to wizards, witches, dark spells and even darker secrets - all obsessed with the use of magic in this world or the next. Mike Ashley's masterly selection includes such precursors of the Potter series as 'The Sleuth-Worm' by Edith Nesbit, 'The Wall around the World' by Theodore Cogswell, 'Ged's Apprenticeship' by Ursula K. Le Guin and others that deal with the discovery of magic or apprenticeship into magic by ordinary folk. With plenty of specially commissioned new stories, it all adds up to a spellbinding bumper volume in which contributors include: Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, John Morressy, Theodore Sturgeon, John Jakes, Patricia McKillip, Esther Friesner, Louise Cooper, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Tom Holt and Charles de Lint.

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2010-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184901535X

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Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
Author: Paul Gravett
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2008-08-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

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Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics
Author: Peter Normanton
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2008-01
Genre: Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781845296414

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Bringing together some of the most famous names in comic book terror, 'The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics' includes work that ranges from the 'weird menace' horror of the ever popular 1950s pre-code comics, to the darkest fantasies of the 90s and 2000s.