XANADU
with Martin H. Greenberg
Tor Books 1993
ISBN# 0-312-85367-X hardcover
ISBN# 0-812-52082-3 mass market paperback
Published for adults.

The start of a series of the best original adult fantasy short stories and poems, including one of my own poems in each volume. Martin H. Greenberg and I sold the book together, but only my name appears on the cover because I edited the book. He handled the monetary details.Rave reviews, calling this the series that shows what fantasy is about. Few sales.

       Out of print.

What reviewers have said: "Fantasists often anchor their flights of imagination to some recognizable underpinning. One favorite trick is to borrow the archaic diction associatedwith medieval romances, fairy tales and rehashed Bible stories. At its worst, this stylistic borrowing leads to unviable hybrids in which characters out of modern day Westerns and soap operas stalk through misty landscapes spouting pseudomedieval bombast. But in the hands of writers who genuinely appreciate the tradition, fantasies with an archaic flavor can sparkle. ... As much as I enjoyed these exercises in stylistic reclamation, I was most taken with Frances Stokes Hoekstra's 'Pale Moon,' which deftly blends wish-fulfillment fantasy with a contemporary tale of adolescent angst that brings to mind the best young-adult books of Judy Blume." -- The New York Times Book Review

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