Xanadu 2 Author:Jane Yolen (Editor) A charming collection of all-new fantastic verse and short fiction illustrating a broad range of modern fantasy. This second volume of Jane Yolen's acclaimed fantasy annual contains twenty-six brand new, never before published stories and poems from some of the finest writers in the world. — Among the stories and poems in Xanadu 2 are: — "In the D... more »rought" by Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of the National Book Award;
"The book of the Dead Man" by prize winning poet Marvin Bell, the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at he University of Iowa;
"Shell Story" by Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright George Mackay Brown;
"The Dovrefell Cat" by New York times bestseller Diane Duane;
"Transmutations" by Patricia A. McKillip, the award-winning author of The Riddlemaster of Hed and The Sorceress and the Cygmet;
"Young Woman in a Garden" by Delia Sherman, author of the acclaimed novel The Porcelain Dove;
"Laurel, Again" by Carol Jane Bangs;
"Metamorphoses" by professional story-teller Milbre Burch;
"Last Day In Mary Grammar Lesson" by poet Barbara Van Noord.
"Just Another Dragon-Slaying" by
Vivian Vande Velde
"A Most Obedient Cat" by Tappan King
"The Spinner" by Martha Soukup
"Raven" by Richard Kearns
"Oldthings" by Will Shetterly and
"The Fifth Squashed Cat" by Megan Lindholm
This wide-ranging collection also includes works by Barbara Hambly, Bruce Boston, Sandra Rector and PMF Johnson, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Terri Windling, Susan Solomont, Carol Edelstein, Winter-Damon & Thomas Wiloch, Rose Kremers, Mary A. Turzillo.« less