num_pages: 432
description: This career retrospective from one of the most-beloved authors in the fantasy genre is essential for fans of his internationally best-selling series novels (Otherland; Memory Sorrow and Thorn).Tad Williams has achieved success in multiple genres and forms whether in epic fantasy urban fantasy science fiction or young adult fiction. Readers only familiar with such masterpieces as The Dragonbone Chair and Talchasers Song will be delighted to discover that in his short fiction Williams has been able to explore myriad new possibilities and adventures.Previously collected in multiauthor anthologies and limited hardcover editions these superlative talks of dragons super-soldiers wizards cyberpunks heroes and fools are now available together for the first time in an affordable trade paperback edition. These stories showcase the exhilarating breadth of Williams imagination in stories hearkening to the tales of such classic fantasists as J. R. R. Tolkien Robert Jordan Ray Bradbury and Peter S. Beagle. Included is an original tale written specifically for this volume.The Very Best of Tad Williams is a true delight to those who have imagined themselves in fantastic worlds beyond the everyday and mundane.TABLE OF CONTENTSThe Old Scale GameThe Storm DoorThe Strangers HandsChild of an AncientCityThe Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland StoryThree Duets for Virgin and NosehornDiary of a DragonNot with a Whimper EitherSome Thoughts Re: Dark DestroyerZ is for...Monsieur Vergalants CanardThe Stuff that Dreams are Made OfFish Between FriendsEvery Fuzzy Beast of the Earth Every Pink Fowl of the AirA Stark and Wormy KnightBlack SunshineAnd Ministers of Grace
language: English
title: The Very Best of Tad Williams
publisher: Tachyon Publications