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All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

 In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear...

 Includes stories by bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon, Simon R. Green, S. M. Stirling, and Carrie Vaughn, as well as tales by Glen Cook, Bradley Denton, M.L.N. Hanover, Conn Iggulden, Laurie R. King, Joe R. Lansdale, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Melinda Snodgrass, and Lisa Tuttle.

Ежемесячный журнал «Сверхновая американская фантастика» — русское издание американского ежемесячника «Magazine of Fantazy and Science Fiction». Выходит с июля 1994 г.

If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 bestselling author George R.R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R.R. Martin himself offers a brand-new tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire.

Follow along with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix, and Connie Willis, as well as other masters of literary sleight-of-hand, in this rogues gallery of stories that will plunder your heart—and yet leave you all the richer for it.

This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others.

Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com, and other top venues, is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

«Все любят негодяев… хотя иногда жалеют об этом всю оставшуюся жизнь.

Подлецы, ловкачи и прохвосты. Лоботрясы, воры, обманщики и плуты. Плохие парни и девчонки. Жулики, соблазнители, трюкачи, самозванцы, лжецы, хамы… имен у них много, они появляются в самых разных книгах, всех стилей, что придуманы в этом мире, в мифах и легендах… о да, и, конечно же, на всем протяжении истории человечества. Дети Локи, братья Койота. Иногда они герои, иногда – злодеи…»

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