Niall Anthony Stafford Anthony Stafford itibaren Navalur
Preston-Child have this gift. They can write a book, and even though you have read the seven books in the series that have come before, know the characters, know what they have been through, what they know, their experience, their relationships... they still amaze the crap out of you. They are also gifted with just how many plot layers they can apply to one novel. Their books are something to be read in order to experience. My hats off to the gents, as usual.
Aimed at teens, and again with the whiny-people-with-trivial-problems problem occasionally (Ellen Kushner's "Charis," especially). But tons of wonderful stories. Best stories: Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry" (about an old woman who finds the Holy Grail at a secondhand store) Susan Palwick's "Jo's Hair" (about what happens to Jo March's hair when she sells it) Harry Turtledove's "Not All Wolves" (about a boy werewolf escaping into the Jews' quarter) Andy Duncan, "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" (not so much for the fantasy element, which is negligible, but for the marvelous evocation of the early days of radio and mountain music) Ursula LeGuin's "The Bones of the Earth" (about stopping the earthquake, and fathers, and teachers) Sherwood Smith's "Mom and Dad on the Home Front" (about what the parents do while the kids are saving the other world) Orson Scott Card's "Hatrack River" (about the night Alvin was born, and I'm sure I've read it in one of the novels).