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from: DAW
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780756400026
ISBN: 0756400023
Label: DAW
Manufacturer: DAW
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: July 01, 2001
Publisher: DAW
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Studio: DAW
Sales Rank: 1144424
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They're fascinating and they're fatal.
They're trained assassins-the targeted subjects of this killer collection of brand-new tales featuring the hottest hit men-and women-in fantasy today.
With a new Nightfall story by best-selling author Mickey Zucker Reichert, a dangerous turn with Tanya Huff's duo, Vree and Bannon, and a killer surprise from Michelle West's Kallandras-this is, truly, an anthology to die for.
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I finished the "Assassin Fantastic" anthology, edited by Marc Greenberg and Alexander Potter. It was a better anthology than most that I've read, but I still found the assassins very similar from story to story. Most could be summed up as "dark and mysterious," not too far removed from a romance novel hero in its "cardboard-ness". And the plots were predictable.
The stories that I became most engaged in were Tanya Huff's "Death Rites" where if anyone has read here two novels about ... Read More
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I love assassins. Using their wits, stealth, skill and the judicious use of force to complete their mission they appeal to someone who wants more than a mighty thewed warrior hewing his way to success.
That being said, there's one thing assassins do. They kill, or at least try to. A book full of assassin stories, no matter how varied the collection tries to make the stories, does get a bit tiresome if they are are not all superlative.
In this case, the middle stories are ... Read More
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My favorite stories are those that remind me of Looking Glass Studios' _Thief_ games; a *real* sneaker leaves no traces, other than the job having been done.
Arntzen, Bernie: "On My Honor" Nicholas, the narrator, is and isn't the Oranian Royal Assassin; he's also Roarke's most secret agent in the Oranian court. Now he's been ordered to bite off the hand that feeds him: the queen has ordered him to kill her despicable brother-in-law, the King of Roarke. (Nicholas' humor isn't quenched by ... Read More
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Assassin's are extremely difficult characters to write. If you do it wrong, the assassin becomes a monster that no one can relate to. Or becomes self-rightous and hypocritical.
In this book there are 15 stories of assassins who are unique characters unto themselves, and no where near typical.
My favorites were Death Rites, about the brother sister team of Vree and Bannon, assassins for the empire. Also Coin of the Realm, which gave a very interesting twist, and Darkness Comes Together, about ... Read More
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As with all anthologies, the stories here vary in quality. I particularly liked Tanya Huff's story of the brother and sister assassin team that she later featured in her novel _Fifth Quarter,_ and Fiona Patton's tale of a slightly-alternate magical Italy where "death mages" and the Church wage an underground war. The nice thing about anthologies in general is that they can make one aware of writers, and works, that one might miss otherwise. The bad thing is that the quality of stories can be very uneven, ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780756400026
ISBN: 0756400023
Label: DAW
Manufacturer: DAW
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: July 01, 2001
Publisher: DAW
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Studio: DAW
Sales Rank: 1144424
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