The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
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James Womack is a translator and poet. He has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergio del Molino, Roberto Arlt, Silvina Ocampo, and Boris Savinkov. He currently teaches Spanish translation at Cambridge University. His second collection of poems, On Trust: A Book of Lies, was published in 2017, and his anthology of verses of Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Vladimir Mayakovsky” and Other Poems, came out in 2016.
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Marian Womack is a translator, author, and editor. She is a graduate of the Cambridge University Creative Writing Master Degree and a postgraduate researcher at the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her Lost Objects, a collection of tales about ghosts and nature, was published by Luna Press in 2018.
About the Editors
Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring editor for Tor.com and Weird Fiction Review and is the editor-in-residence for Shared Worlds. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for coediting 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, an anthology of feminist speculative fiction; The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art; and The Big Book of Science Fiction.
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New York Times bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by The New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. His most recent novel, Borne, received widespread critical acclaim for its exploration of animal and human life in a post-scarcity landscape. VanderMeer’s prior work includes the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), which has been translated into thirty-five languages. Annihilation was made into a film by Paramount Pictures and won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award. VanderMeer’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and The Washington Post, among others. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, he has also edited or coedited many iconic fiction anthologies, taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference, lectured at MIT, Brown, and the Library of Congress, been the writer-in-residence for Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and serves as the codirector of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp located at Wofford College. His forthcoming novel is the first in the Adventures of Jonathan Lambshead series (FSG Kids). With his wife, Ann VanderMeer, he has edited more than a dozen anthologies.
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Editorial Consultant:
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Dominik Parisien is the coeditor, with Navah Wolfe, of Robots vs. Fairies and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. He is also the coeditor, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, of Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Uncanny Magazine, and Exile: The Literary Quarterly, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He is a disabled French Canadian and lives in Toronto.
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Editorial Assistant:
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Chyina Powell began reading in the confines of her home in Akron, Ohio, at an early age. She loved the way that she could relate to stories and how they were able to take her on a journey. Soon she began creating worlds of her own, writing short stories and poetry in her free time. By the time she was in high school, she found a passion in helping others with their own worlds. Now that she has completed her schooling, she hopes to become a full-time editor, as well as work on her own speculative fiction pieces.
ALSO BY
ANN AND JEFF VANDERMEER
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THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION
What if life were never-ending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you’ll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard science fiction, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of the genre, from titans of literature who also wrote science fiction to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds.
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