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My Favorite Fantasy Story

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I saw this compilation book the other day in Barnes & Noble. Donaldson's favorite story, "The Dancer from the Dance" by M. John Harrison, has a very long intro by him. Some picks by Wolfe, Martin, Gaiman, Pratchett (As well as one of his stories), Saberhagen, and others.

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Syl, Did you find any way to access SRD's intro to this story on Amazon? I so enjoy his intros.
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Sorry, no.
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Thanks Syl for pointing this book out. I went straight out, today, and bought it and found the intro very passionate and interesting. Must look this Harrison up...

I also saw that the book was edited by Martin H. Greenberg, a longtime collaborator of SRD. He has compiled at least two, now three books with a story by SRD in them. In The Book of Kings from -95 was "The Kings of Tarshish Shall Bring Gifts" first published, and In After the King from -92 was "Reave the Just" first published...

I too like SRD's introductions...think I will start a thread about them...

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