Synopsis
Avram Davidson, author of such classics as "Or All the Seas with Oysters", "Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper", "Golem", and "My Boyfriend's Name Is Jello", was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. Now his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, Gene Wolfe, Guy Davenport, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, Alan Dean Foster, Thomas M. Disch, and dozens of others. This is a volume every lover of 20th-century fantasy will need to own.
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Review
"Not merely a treasury, it's a genuine treasure. Some of its pages will carry you away to strange seas and shores, others will show you the marvelous within the merely ordinary, and just about all of them will take your breath away. But that's what magicians do.""--The Washington Post Book World" ""The Avram Davidson Treasury" may be the most satisfying short-story collection of the decade."--"Amazon.com" "Buy this book. it is aply named: a treasure."--"Interzone"
From the Publisher
This is a collection of extraordinary short fantasy.
I am the in-house editor at Tor, and I love this book. I am honored and delighted to be able to help bring some of Avram Davidson's short stories back into print.
Davidson was one of the great American writers of our time, a writer's writer; but his best work was in short stories, fantasy for the most part, and most of it was published in the genre pulp magazines. That's no way to become rich and famous. But his stories are wonderful just the same -- far too wonderful to let vanish into obscurity.
Pick up the collection next time you're in a bookstore and take a look at the introductions. You'll find writers like Peter S. Beagle, Ursula Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and William Gibson, all enthusing and testifying about what a great writer Avram Davidson was.
Better yet, just read the stories. There's nothing anyone can say about Avram Davidson that's better than reading his stories. Promise.
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