Unnatural Creatures
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"A number of stories featuring unnatural creatures along with several other creatures who are either unlikely, impossible, or do not exist at all."
* / Gahan Wilson -- The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees / E. Lily Yu -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Ozioma the Wicked / Nnedi Okorafor -- Sunbird / Neil Gaiman -- The Sage of Theare / Diana Wynne Jones -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby / E. Nesbit -- Moveable Beast / Maria Dahvana Headley -- The Flight of the Horse / Larry Niven -- Prismatica / Samuel R. Delany -- The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me / Megan Kurashige -- The Compleat Werewolf / Anthony Boucher -- The Smile on the Face / Nalo Hopkinson -- Or All the Seas With Oysters / Avram Davidson -- Come Lady Death / Peter S. Beagle.
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Overall a good collection
submitted by yugure on June 19, 2013, 3:01pm
Overall a good collection of short stories by skilled writers.
WIlson's "*" has the most unique creature (which I will not name so I won't spoil it!), and I enjoyed that story the most. Yu's "The Cartographer Wasps" was beautifully written but a little bittersweet. I had read Jones's "The Sage of Theare" from her own collection of short stories and it's quite a good one, so don't miss it here. "Moveable Beast" by Headley was a little uneven in the writing, but I appreciate the surprising creature she uses.
I did not care for Gaiman's, which seemed a little distasteful to me, and Delany's "Prismatica" seemed to go on forever and ever and ever (and not in a good way). Boucher's Werewolf was a little too silly for my taste.
Unnatural Creatures submitted by lstorc on August 6, 2018, 4:28am A well thought-out collection
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 462 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0062236296
9780062236302
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gaiman, Neil.
Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977-
Morrow-Cribbs, Briony,
SUBJECTS
Imaginary creatures -- Fiction.
Animals, Mythical -- Fiction.