The Best of Fantasy 2001

By: Greg van Eeckhout, Rosemary Edghill, Lawrence Miles, Poul Anderson, Catherine Asaro, Robert Thurston, Brian A. Hopkins, Lucius Shepard, Jack O'Connell, Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Jason Cole, Terry Fishman, Gabrielle de Cuir, William Windom, Scott Brick, Catherine Asaro, Iris Bahr, M.E. Willis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stefan Rudnicki

These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age. Stories include:

• “Bones of the Earth” written and performed by Ursula K. LeGuin
• ”Eternity and Afterword” written by Lucius Shepard and performed by Stefan Rudnicki
• ”The Lady of the Wind” written by Poul Anderson and performed by Scott Brick
• ”Legerdemain” written by Jack O’Connell and performed by William Windom
• “Diving the Coolidge written by Brian A. Hopkins and performed by M.E. Willis
• ”The Mould of Form” written by Rosemary Edghill and performed by Terry Fishman
• ”Wolves Till the World Goes Down” written by Greg Van Eeckhout and performed by Jason Cole
• ”Ave de Paso” written and performed by Catherine Asaro
• ”Roxanne Hernandez Grass” written by Lawrence Miles and performed by Gabrielle de Cuir and William Windom
• ”Slipshot, at the End of the Universe” written by Robert Thurston and performed by Iris Bahr

©2002 iboooks, Inc. (P)2002, 2019 Audio Literature, Phoenix Books

A worthwhile selection

Lucius Shepard’s Eternity and Beyond is by far the BEST out of this anthology. Some of the stories are not read very well, and the performers are at times quite boring. The stories that are performed well go some way towards making up for the weaker performances.

Pretty bad.

I don't like giving out low reviews, but these stories were pretty boring. Give this one a miss.