Tuesday October 20 2009
[5] Comments | Posted by Jonathan | 08:01:pm
Lou Anders and I delivered our fantasy anthology, Swords and Dark Magic: The New Swords and Sorcery to HarperCollins in New York several weeks ago. We needed to finalise a few details first, but we’re now ready to announce the final table of contents for the book.
- Introduction, Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
- “Goats of Glory”, Steven Erikson
- “Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company”, Glen Cook
- “Bloodsport”, Gene Wolfe
- “The Singing Spear”, James Enge
- “A Wizard of Wiscezan”, C.J. Cherryh
- “A Rich Full Week”, K. J. Parker
- “A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet”, Garth Nix
- “Red Pearls: An Elric Story”, Michael Moorcock
- “The Deification of Dal Bamore”, Tim Lebbon
- “Dark Times at the Midnight Market”, Robert Silverberg
- “The Undefiled”, Greg Keyes
- “Dapple Hew the Tint Master”, Michael Shea
- “In the Stacks”, Scott Lynch
- “Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe”, Tanith Lee
- “The Sea Troll’s Daughter”, Caitlin R Kiernan
- “Thieves of Daring”, Bill Willingham
- “The Fool Jobs”, Joe Abercrombie
While there’s always someone else who could be in a book like this, we’re delighted with the quality of the stories we received, grateful to the authors for being involved and to our publisher for supporting the book. It’ll be out next July and is fabulous! Oh, and there’ll be a limited edition done by Subterranean Press too, which should be awesome in its own right.
ETA: And Lou’s announcement is here.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Wow. Let me say that again. Wow. That is quite a collection of writers you guys have assembled. My smile kept growing wider as I read each author’s name as some of my all time favorites are there. I was already sold on the book before the table of contents was announced based upon your names alone, but this is the icing on the cake. Now I have to get the Sub Press limited edition too! I look forward to reading this book next year.
Best,
Chris
October 20th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
[...] I’ve been raving about Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan’s Swords & Dark Magic anthology for a while now, and I’m gonna continue to do so, I expect, until the book’s been recieved, read, reviewed and shelved. I mean, seriously, look at this Table of Contents, just revealed by Anders and Strahan: [...]
October 21st, 2009 at 5:56 am
[...] I’m also delighted to announce that my story The Deification of Dal Bamore will be published in the new anthology Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders. You can find full details here. [...]
October 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
This is an awesome line up. Erikson, Cook, Cherryh, Keyes, Moorcock?
“Yes, please”!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
A wondrous list indeed – let’s hope that this book will be available in Malaysia