Ann and Jeff VanderMeer with "The Big Book of Modern Fantasy"

Join Midtown Reader for a conversation with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors of the new anthology The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. Ann and Jeff will be joined by several of the book’s contributors, including authors Victor LaValle, Sheree Renee Thomas, and Kelly Link, with Matt Cheney moderating the panel.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes a true horde of tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons. Step through a shimmering portal…a worn wardrobe door…a schism in the sky…into a bold new age of fantasy, when worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties and into the twenty-first century, the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English.From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest.Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories.