num_pages: 266
description: What magical beings inhabit earth's waters? Some are almost-familiar as mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar's Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson-- names well known to lovers of fantasy-- have given us six stories of the fabulous creatures associated with the element of water. Each story is as different from the others as are the creatures themselves, but all are vividly imagined and powerfully told in the way that their many admirers have learnt to expect from these two writers.
language: English
title: Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
titlecomplete: Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Anthologies, Short Stories, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Mermaids
ratings_count: 3013
series: Tales of Elemental Spirits 
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons