Coming Soon: Unnatural Creatures Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman will be available on 4/23/13…
And since @Nickpheas asked on Twitter:
@neilhimself Is there a list of the stories anywhere? Not yet listed on your website as far as I could see. @harpercollins
We are happy to share the list with you here:
[inksplot] by Gahan Wilson
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Griffin and the Minor Canon” by Frank R. Stockton
“Ozioma the Wicked” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Sunbird” by Neil Gaiman
“The Sage of Theare” by Diana Wynne Jones
“Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki
“The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby” by E. Nesbit
“Moveable Beast” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“The Flight of the Horse” by Larry Niven
“Prismatica” by Samuel R. Delany
“The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me by Megan” Kurashige
“The Compleat Werewolf” by Anthony Boucher
“The Smile on the Face” by Nalo Hopkinson
“Or All the Seas with Oysters” by Avram Davidson
“Come Lady Death” by Peter S. Beagle
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Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. The sixteen stories gathered by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from the whimsical to the terrifying. The magical creatures range from werewolves to sunbirds to beings never before classified. E. Nesbit, Diana Wynne Jones, Gahan Wilson, and other literary luminaries contribute to the anthology. Sales of Unnatural Creatures benefit 826DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students in their creative and expository writing, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Sounds like a book I’d love.
And, also…
THIS COVER ART. Yum.
Very proud of this book. And ALL THE MONEY goes to 826DC.
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman by Neil Gaiman
Received my ARC today. This looks like an excellent collection.
Stories include selections from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, E. Nesbit, Peter S. Beagle, and some other classic authors, but there are also stories by Nalo Hopkinson, Megan Kurashige, Nnedi Okorafor, and E. Lily Yu. The only way I could possibly be more excited to read this would be if there was also an N.K. Jemisin story.
While the male authors picked are all white dudes, I actually kind of like the way that works out. Many of the stories by men in this collection are by guys who are dead, and if this was someone’s only exposure to fantasy I think one would have to draw the conclusion that white men are the history of the genre and that the future of fantasy storytelling is represented by a fairly diverse group of women.
I’m really proud of this collection. And I don’t think that would be a particularly wrong-headed conclusion, either.
Puzzled to learn that Samuel R. Delany, aka Chip Delany to his friends, whose story ‘Prismatica’ I reprint in Unnatural Creatures for the first time in 35 years, is now thought of as a white dude, though. He does have a long white beard.
This is what Chip Delany looked like before he had a long white beard:
(via existentialcrisisfactory)