Stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio

 

A reader who picks up this anthology seeing the name Neil Gaiman may think this is a collection of science fiction/fantasy stories.  Instead it is a collection of stories whose criteria for inclusion was that they provide a moment of magic.  The editors write "We wanted to read stories that used a lightning-flash of magic as a way of showing us something we have already seen a thousand times as if we have never seen it at all".  

The authors included in alphabetical order are Richard Adams, Kurt Andersen, Lawrence Block, Jonathan Carroll, Jeffery Deaver, Roddy Doyle, Jeffrey Ford, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Kat Howard, Diana Wynne Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Moorcock, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Chuck Palahnuk, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jodi Picoult, Tim Powers, Al Sarrantonio, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, Michael Swanwick and Gene Wolfe.  Readers of all genres will find stories that match their preferences and everyone will be delighted at the quality of the stories.  This book is recommended for short story readers.