Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy
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這本書是Jack Dann和Gardner Dozois以巫師為主題，邀請了十八位當代”重量級”的奇科幻作家撰寫的短篇小說集，我還沒看，應該是頗有意思的合集，看見封面強調”Never-Before-Published Stories”，衝著這行就覺得值得，哈哈。
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( r# f1 f; ^$ y* ~% T我順手把目錄和序打了下，讓大家流流口水吧： _! @- P: [' U: ~
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$ _) x0 E* ^+ G& ]% dCONTENTS& w3 A2 N4 G# M/ d( f
% _3 P: S6 e# x% J5 Q& d: U* ]Preface......ix
4 R# s( ^! t- @" GBy Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois* x) l4 f1 |& b0 \4 [" o0 a/ M
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The Witch's Headstone......1
% P; v( B3 e; N3 k% T. GBy Neil Gaiman
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Holly and Iron......25
- `( ^) x# v! d) x, j! e* |* |By Garth Nix
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Color Vision......58' y1 _# X8 [" w* n7 D
By Mary Rosenblum
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1 u7 @9 u4 Y6 p. D5 FThe Ruby Incomparable......83 G5 O- M6 `2 a& K
By Kage Baker& Y% s) Q5 n2 G
9 k1 |3 ]" m3 b- H' l6 _5 x) i% H3 _A Fowl Tale......99. r2 a* x$ {/ I w# Z+ c4 D
By Eoin Colfer
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4 ?9 b: H5 O/ k# TSlipping Sideways Through Eternity......105! o# d7 h' m0 g1 x* L) r2 i6 R
By Jane Yolen
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The Stranger's Hands......119
2 A6 T( v. U' s4 H3 lBy Tad Williams. ?& p4 q$ ^* t2 f# q7 V/ n
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Naming Day......1390 k8 E" s# ^: _1 E! l4 G
By Patricia A. Mckillip0 n, Z4 q2 J) F. c
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. O2 _4 l: u' h4 l9 \8 uBy Elizabeth Hand
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A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question......187* Y% s- T- g5 z$ B
By Andy Duncan" X5 q8 {, Y4 x3 a8 ~
" O+ j0 O3 I( l) c# A" N5 oBarrens Dance......219# o+ J' K2 `, _
By Peter S. Beagle; C1 D* t, \: h8 }9 B4 W- j: O
4 _- K8 R. @$ I! K/ F9 pStone Man......234
* I9 s2 ]" R, F0 E7 I# iBy Nancy Kress, u/ o. d) \* s6 O/ q5 ~
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The Manticore Spell......254, [7 ]$ i; P2 q; x+ h7 d: Y
By Jeffrey Ford* |, J. D( k# ]6 D9 q7 q# L4 a
+ r8 b* ~7 k* `2 \ j5 g) Y$ [5 uZinder......263
0 C" @) b' s5 C) G, a+ S H6 dBy Tanith Lee' i- Q+ c; w0 I: m2 [$ v
6 q, M2 v* D6 {! kBilly and the Wizard......277
$ I4 Z) {- B7 UBy Terry Bisson% `6 `# B! {' X" c* A) D
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The Magikkers......284
9 a2 f2 S2 d QBy Terry Dowling
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The Magic Animal......299
' W3 O( X% i7 j7 FBy Gene Wolfe
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c7 U) E- I% r9 ~) F+ @$ ZStonefather......326* d& Z8 S# i: S
By Orson Scott Card4 s4 D% t" Z2 }9 `& Q+ Z, T4 q3 o
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! ?7 N. ~: ~5 C5 t+ t1 c8 d/ s$ MWizards have stalked through the human imagination for thousands and thousands of years, perhaps even from a time before we were fully human. Traces of Neanderthal magic have been found at prehistoric sites: a low-walled stone enclosure containing seven bear heads, all facing forward; a human skull deep caves of Lascaux and Altamira and Rouffignac, the Cro-Magnons were practicing magic too, perhaps learned from the vanishing Neanderthals, filling wall after wall in the most remote and isolated depths of hidden caverns with vivid, emblematic paintings of Ice Age animals and the abstract and interlacing paint-outlined human handprints known as "Macaronis" (there's little doubt that these paintings were used in sorcerous rites, especially as many of the paintings seem to have been ritually "killed," perhaps to ensure success in the hunt). These ancient walls also give us what may be the very first representation of a wizard in human history, a hulking, shaggy, mysterious, deer-headed figure watching over the bright, flat, painted animals as they caper across the stone.
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Wizards, sorcerers, shamans, witches, medicine men, seers, root women, conjure men--every age and every culture from prehistoric times on has had its own version of the magic-user, the-one-who-intercedes-with-the-spirits, the one who knows the ancient secrets and can call upon the hidden powers, the one who can see both the spirits world and the physical world, and who can mediate between them. Sometimes they're benevolent and wise, sometimes evil and malign, sometimes--ambiguously--both. Even here in the twenty-first century, where space stations and satellites whirl overhead, you can communicate instantly with someone on the other side of the world, and you can cross a continent from one coast to the other in a matter of hours (things that would themselves have seemed like the most extreme magic only a few hundred years ago), the figure of the wizard is still a deeply significant one, an archetype that haunts art, advertising, literature, folklore, cartoons, movies, and even our very dreams.* Z1 R$ B$ m+ v( j/ x6 `; d6 c
( H, w: F2 B; F- ~5 z2 f3 bWe asked some of the very best modern fantasist--Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Hand, Eoin Colfer, Jane Yolen, Peter S. Beagle, Kage Baker, Tad Williams, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Patricia A. McKillip, Terry Bisson, Nancy Kress, Andy Duncan, Mary Rosenblum, Jeff Ford, Tanith Lee, Terry Dowling--to write stories about that most potent of fantasy archetypes, The Wizard. This book you hold in your hands is the result, and here you will find wizards young and old, evil and benign, male and female, living in the ancient world and in the modern world and in fantasy worlds that never were...children who can talk to animals, and animals who are willing to give up their lives to fight evil magic, boys who are raised by the dead, and girls who make friends with ghosts in haunted houses, boys who find the Devil ruffling through magazines in their garage or who secretly have the power of gods, and women who fight Iron Magic with Holly Magic through the deep forests of Arthurian Britain, or who fight deadly magical conspiracies in their own backyards, talking chickens and monstrous manticores, stone men, mysterious strangers, and a ruby incomparable, wizards as blackly evil as night or as bright and gentle as a summer's day...plus a few wizards who just can't make up their minds!; e) ~* i2 t1 h4 }9 M' g; b3 v
* K, J6 i2 j4 h+ c- r8 A8 h% VWe hope you enjoy them.
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