Year's Best Fantasy 2

Remarkable Journeys to Fantastic Realms.

Undreamed-of wonders from the farthest reaches of imagination.

In this second volume of the previous year's finest short fantastic fiction, acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell showcases new works by stellar literary artists--acknowledged masters of the genre and exceptionally talented newcomers alike. Astonishing worlds come alive in these pages--realms of strange creatures and remarkable sorceries, as well as twisted shadow versions of our inhabited earthly plane. A bold and breathtaking compendium of tales--including a new Earthsea story from the incomparable Ursula K. Le Guin--YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 2 is the state-of-the-art of a unique and winning genre, offering unforgettable excursions into new realities wondrous, bizarre, enchanting.. and terrifying.

*"The Finder" by Ursula K. Le Guin
*"Senator Bilbo" by Andy Duncan
*"Big City Littles" by Charles de Lint
*"What the Tyger Told Her" by Kage Baker
*"In the Shadow of her Wings" by Ashok Banker
*"The Heart of the Hill" by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson
*"Queen" by Gene Wolfe
*"The Black Heart" by Patrick O'Leary
*"On the Wall" by Jo Walton
*"Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang
*"The Man Who Stole the Moon" by Tanith Leen
*"Firebird" by R. Garcia y Robertson
*"My Case for Retributive Action" by Thomas Ligotti
*"The Shadow" by Thomas M. Disch
*"Stitchery" by Devon Monk
*"To Others We Know Not Of" by Kate Riedel
*"The Lady of the Winds" by Poul Anderson
*"His Own Back Yard" by James P. Blaylock
*"A Place to Begin" by Richard Parks
*"Nucleon" by David D. Levine
*"My Stolen Sabre" by Uncle River
*"Apologue" by James Morrow