"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms" - Lao Tzu
Book Details
Title: Legends II
Tag-line: Eleven new works by the masters of modern fantasy
Genre/Category: Fantasy
Type: Short Fiction Anthology
Editor: Robert Silverberg
Contributors: Robin Hobb, George R R Martin, Orson Scott Card, Diana Gabaldon, Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, Anne McCaffery, Raymond E Feist, Elizabeth Haydon, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks
Publisher: Voyager
ISBN: 0-00-715435-6
Reading Details
Started Reading: 9th August 2008
Finished Reading: 15th October 2008
Comments
What do you think of the new format? I've decided to include as many useful and interesting pieces of information as possible. I'm thinking about what kind of information I would like to have to hand when I look back on my year's reading. One of the most interesting things to me personally is to have a photo of the actual copy I read, so I've stopped using amazon to find book covers photos and started taking my own. It even shows my bookmark poking out of the top. I hope that little details like this will bring the experience of reading the book back to me more vividly when I read back on these posts in years to come. The sense of nostalgia will also be greater.
Initial comments for this book will go here. Subsequent thoughts will be added as actual blog comments. The first comment should usually be: Why did you choose to read this book? It was a simple choice this time. I enjoyed the previous book, Legends, so much that when I saw a big, fat copy of Legends II on the shelf of my local library I just had to snap it up. My library has a shelf set aside for selections made by the librarians within a genre that they are highlighting that month. This month it's Fanstasy -- my favourite. In many ways that shelf is like this book. Someone has selected books that represent a wide range of recommended reads. The advantage of a short story anthology is that it takes much less time to discover the worlds, stories, writing style, and voice of each of these authours.
