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    Other Worlds Than These

    By John Joseph Adams

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    What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such "other worlds"--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781597804349
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    John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

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    • 4/5
      Wide variety and variation in (short) stories but overall good.
    • 4/5
      This is a nicely balanced selection of short stories about traveling to and among parallel worlds, with a good mix of classic and new writers. I preferred the science fiction (multiple universe theory) stories to the fantasy (portal to magical worlds) ones, but all of the stories were entertaining. Standouts were: "Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link; "Porridge on Islac" by Ursula K. Le Guin; "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King; "The Goat Variations" by Jeff VanderMeer; and one that absolutely blew my mind: "[a ghost samba]" by Ian McDonald.Read for the SFFCat in 2015.
    • 3/5
      An eclectic mix of fantasy and Scifi, some enjoyable and some really not that good...