Fantasy: The Best of 2001

The first of the iBooks Year's Best Fantasy series, and a good book, too, making it over the 3.50 mark at 3.55, and with no dodgy stories. Quite a pleasing volume, even if no standout quality stories. Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Bones of the Earth - Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy Best of 2001 : Legerdemain - Jack O'Connell Fantasy Best of 2001 : Diving the Coolidge - Brian A. Hopkins Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Mould of Form - Rosemary Edghill Fantasy Best of 2001 : Eternity and Afterward - Lucius Shepard Fantasy Best of 2001 : Wolves Till the World Goes Down - Greg van Eekhout Fantasy Best of 2001 : The Lady of the Winds - Poul Anderson Fantasy Best of 2001 : Ave de Paso - Catherine Asaro Fantasy Best of 2001 : Grass - Lawrence Miles Fantasy Best of 2001 : Slipshod at the Edge of the Universe - Robert Thurston Fantasy Best of 2001 : Hell Is the Absence of G0d - Ted Chiang Local mastery. 4 out of 5 Refugee book experience recovery. 3.5 out of 5 Ghost rescue, with cat. 4 out of 5 Goodfellow pirate Hooked. 3.5 out of 5 Magic mafiya's dead dude disco. 4 out of 5 No End Of the World Blues. 4 out of 5 "Aialas glance lingered more than it pierced. I do not really wish to destroy you, Cappen Varra, she told him slowly. You have a rather charming way about you. Butshould you disappoint meyou will understand that one does have ones position to maintain." 3.5 out of 5 Earth Lord demons. 3 out of 5 Presidential mammoth herd. 3 out of 5 We might find out. Or not. 3 out of 5