{"id":81,"date":"2002-01-03T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2002-01-04T01:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-01-20T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T01:35:10","slug":"greenberg_marti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/greenberg_marti\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenberg, Martin (ed.): After the King"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>After finishing The Last Hero<\/cite><\/a>, I picked up After the King<\/cite>, edited by Martin Greenberg<\/strong>; it has a Pratchett short story, “Troll Bridge,”<\/strong> that also features Cohen the Barbarian, though it’s not clear to me if it’s supposed to be canonical Discworld. It’s a great story and works with some themes similar to The Last Hero<\/cite>‘s.<\/p>\n

Since After the King<\/cite> has some other very fine stories, and since anthologies are good for short-attention-span environments like hospital and airport waiting rooms (to pick two examples completely not at random), I ended up reading most of the rest of it over vacation. (There are a few stories that I have no interest in reading, and accordingly have never read; I don’t really know why.) Far and away my favorite is Emma Bull’s “Silver or Gold,”<\/strong> a beautiful and wise fairy tale that’s possibly the best thing Bull’s published to date (high praise; she’s one of my favorite writers). My second favorite is Patricia McKillip’s “The Fellowship of the Dragon,”<\/strong> which makes me wonder if I’m not best off reading her in short story form; the only novel of hers I’ve liked so far is The Forgotten Beasts of Eld<\/cite> (which I loved), but I thought “The Lion and the Lark” was great (published in The Armless Maiden<\/cite> and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Ninth Edition<\/cite>). Other stories I particuarly enjoyed were Peter Beagle’s “The Naga,” Jane Yolen’s “Winter’s King,” and Mike Resnick’s “Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After finishing The Last Hero, I picked up After the King, edited by Martin Greenberg; it has a Pratchett short story, “Troll Bridge,” that also features Cohen the Barbarian, though it’s not clear to me if it’s supposed to be canonical Discworld. It’s a great story and works with some themes similar to The Last … <\/p>\n

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