Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition

by Rich Horton

Summary

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best fantasy prose written in 2006, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines.

Contents:
Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert --
The water poet and the four seasons / David J. Schwartz --
Pol Pot's beautiful daughter (fantasy) / Geoff Ryman --
The osteomancer's son / Greg van Eekhout --
Salt wine / Peter S. Beagle --
The original word for rain / Peter Higgins --
The lineaments of gratified desire / Ysabeau Wilce --
Journey to Gantica / Matthew Corradi --
Irregular verbs / Matthew Johnson --
A fish story / Sarah Totton --
The night whiskey / Jeffrey Ford --
A fine magic / Margo Lanagan --
Naturally / Daniel Handler --
Moon viewing at Shijo Bridge / Richard Parks --
Citrine / Elise Moser --
A siege of cranes / Benjamin Rosenbaum.