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Funny Fantasy

by Esther Friesner

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways.

Fiction Fantasy Collections & Anthologies
Author Esther Friesner
Published 2016
Format Print edition

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About Funny Fantasy

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways. This book collects some of the best funny fantasy fiction published in the past decade. Included are works by Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as up-and-coming talented writers. Includes the following stories: "Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger" by Laura Resnick "Crumbs" by Esther Friesner "Fellow Traveler" by Donald J. Bingle "A Fish Story" by Sarah Totton "Another End of the Empire" by Tim Pratt "Giantkiller" by G. Scott Huggins "A Mild Case of Death" by David Gerrold "Fairy Debt" by Gail Carriger "A Very Special Girl" by Mike Resnick "The Blue Corpse Corps" by Jim C. Hines "Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel" by Shaenon K. Garrity "The Queens Reason" by Richard Parks "The Best Little Cleaning Robot in All of Faerie" by Susan Jane Bigelow "Suede This Time" by Jean Rabe

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