But by and large the material was just a bit thin. Candy, for example, and cats, and hot baths. Oh, I knew that the real world had its good points. Even at the tender age of eight I was-as I suspect you were, and are, if you’re reading this book-one of reality’s natural critics. When I read The Chronicles of Narnia as a child, it didn’t so much introduce me to the idea that there was another world as confirm my already grave suspicions on the subject. “Go then, there are other worlds than these.” –Jake Chambers, to Roland Deschain of Gilead It comes highly recommended to both and all.” “Reminds longtime readers of fantasy and sci-fi what we love about the genre, while also and aptly demonstrating to newcomers that these stories are about so much more than dragons and multitentacled monsters. Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world's foremost and ascendant speculative authors.” Adams’s selections are mirrors reflecting one other with the best images of alternate realities. “Anthologist Adams presents readers with a wide variety of alternate Earths, some only slightly askew and others completely unfamiliar. 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. 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. What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? Genre: sf Other Worlds Than These John Adams
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