Ann VanderMeer 

Ann VanderMeer is an award-winning editor & anthologist. She currently serves as an acquiring editor for Reactormag.com. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales, during which time she won the Hugo Award. Along with multiple other nominations, she has won a World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award and a British Fantasy Award for The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Other projects have included Best American Fantasy, three Steampunk anthologies, and a humor book, The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Her latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, and The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art, AVATARS, INC, The Big Book of Science Fiction and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy.

Instagram: @annvander18
Website: vandermeercreative.com

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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

A true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons.

Step through a shimmering portal … a worn wardrobe door … a schism in sky … into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly ‘90s—and beyond, into the 21st century—Ann and Jeff VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent 22 different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest.

Completing the definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume takes the genre into the 21st century with 91 astonishing, mind-bending stories.

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