Kelly Link ist eine amerikanische Autorin, die für ihre Kurzgeschichten gefeiert wird, welche die Gefilde des magischen Realismus, der Fantasy und des Horrors kunstvoll durchqueren. Ihre unverwechselbare Stimme liegt in ihrer unheimlichen Fähigkeit, das Alltägliche mit dem Außergewöhnlichen zu verweben, und schafft Erzählungen, die gleichzeitig beunruhigend und bezaubernd sind. Durch meisterhaft konstruierte Geschichten erforscht Link Themen wie Verlust, Identität und die Komplexität menschlicher Verbindungen mit einem unfehlbaren Auge für eindrucksvolle Details und Atmosphäre.
Atemberaubend kurz, atemberaubend phantastisch Kelly Link, gefeiert als die neue Stimme der Phantastik, gehandelt als der Shooting-Star der amerikanischen Literaturszene. Für ihre Kurzgeschichten wurde die junge Autorin hymnisch von der Presse gelobt und mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet - unter anderem dem World Fantasy Award, dem Hugo Gernsback Award und dem Nebula Award. Schaurig, ungewöhnlich, humorvoll und klug - Kelly Links Erzählungen verzaubern Leserinnen und Leser rund um die Welt!
Erzählungen
Der Schattenmarkt ist Treffpunkt für Feenwesen, Werwölfe, Hexenwesen und Vampire. Hier handeln sie mit magischen Dingen und flüstern sich Geheimnisse zu, von denen die Nephilim nie erfahren sollen. Gestört werden sie dabei immer wieder von einem der Großen unter den Schattenjägern: Bruder Zachariah, der an diesem für ihn verbotenen Ort nach der Lösung eines bedeutsamen Rätsels sucht. Auf seinen Spuren begegnet der Leser den berühmten Figuren der Nephilim und der Schattenwelt – die es irgendwann alle einmal in die geheimnisvolle, magische Welt der dunklen Märkte zieht …
For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original—in short, the best fantasy and horror. The current collection, marking a score of years, offers more than forty stories and poems from almost as many sources. Summations of the field by the editors are complemented by articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint, and Jeff VanderMeer, highlighting the best of the fantastic in, respectively, media, music, and comics, as well as honorable mentions—notable works that didn’t quite make the cut, but are nonetheless worthy of attention. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection is a cornucopia of fantastic delights, an unparalleled resource and indispensable reference that captures the unique excitement and beauty of the fantastic in all its gloriously diverse forms, from the lightest fantasy to the darkest horror.
For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field—nearly four dozen stories, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol-style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror and Year's Best sections—on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge and on film and television by Edward Bryant. This is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.*Terry Bisson *Kevin Brockmeier *Dan Chaon *Peter Crowther *Theodora Goss *Daphne Gottlieb *Glen Hirshberg *Brian Hodge *Nina Kiriki Hoffman *Kij Johnson *Paul LaFarge *Thomas Ligotti *Sara Maitland *Maureen F. McHugh *Steve Rasnic Tem *Benjamin Rosenbaum *Michael Marshall Smith *Michael Swanwick *Karen Traviss *Megan Whalen Turner
The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love?
The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love?
A debut collection of extraordinary stories from an award-winning author. schovat popis
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing and Viking is honored to publish her first young adult story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning 'The Faery Handbag', in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of 'The Surfer', whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link's stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world
Exploring themes of love, connection, and purpose, this collection reimagines classic fairy tales through unique narratives. Characters embark on quests filled with absurdity and introspection, such as a billionaire's sons competing for inheritance and a professor stranded at an airport hotel, anxiously trying to return to her family. Another story features a young man house-sitting, only to find the residence a gateway to otherworldly experiences. Each tale weaves together elements of folklore and modern struggles, creating a rich tapestry of storytelling.
UNDERCOVER OPERATION!Reito and friends are heading into the abandoned hospital said to be the last known location of the missing virologists! There, they uncover a slew of shocking secrets—including the true identity of a certain individual!