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Ashley Mike - The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy / Эшли Майк - Реально смешное фэнтези [1999, EPUB, ENG]

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Mike Ashley - The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy

Название: The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy / Реально смешное фэнтези
Год выпуска: 1999
Под редакцией: Ashley Mike / Эшли Майк
Издательство: ROBINSON
eISBN: 978-1-4721-1490-7
Формат: EPUB
Качество: eBook
Язык: английский

Описание:
Вторая антология юмористической фэнтэзи от известного редактора Майка Эшли. Первая антология: viewtopic.php?t=62431
INTRODUCTION: The Second Most Serious Page in This Book / Предисловие (Самая серьёзная страница в этой книге) Mike Ashley
NEANDER-TALE / Неандер-Тейл James P. Hogan
UNCLE HENRY PASSES / Уход дяди Генри Esther Friesner
A DEALING WITH DEMONS / Разборки с демонами Craig Shaw Gardner
THE CASE OF JACK THE CLIPPER / Дело Джека Подстригателя, или Последняя зимняя сказка David Langford
A SHIVER OF ELVES
    THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVIS / Сапожник и Элвис Пресли Lawrence Schimel
    DANCES WITH ELVES / Танцы с эльфами Cynthia Ward
A HEDGE AGAINST ALCHEMY / Защита от алхимии John Morressy
A SLOW DAY IN HELL / Один долгий день в аду Julia S. Mandala
TWO TALL TALES
    HOW I GOT THREE ZIP CODES / Откуда у меня три почтовых индекса Gene Wolfe
    THE FAILURE OF HOPE & WANDEL / Банкротство фирмы «Хоуп и Уондел» Ambrose Bierce
THE BIRTHDAY GIFT / Подарок к дню рождения Elisabeth Waters
AN INTRUSION OF ALIENS
    CAPTAIN HONARIO HARPPLAYER, R.N. / Капитан Гонарио Харпплейер Harry Harrison
    THE ALIENS WHO KNEW, I MEAN, EVERYTHING / Пришельцы, которые знали всё George Alec Effinger
HISTORY BOOK / Книга по истории John Grant
A DOUBLING OF DRAGONS
    ELIJAH P. JOPP AND THE DRAGON / Элайджа П. Джопп и дракон Archibald Marshall
    THE DRAGON DOCTOR’S APPRENTICE / Ученик драконьего доктора Charles Partington
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT / Правила помолвки Molly Brown
THE TRIUMPH OF VICE / Триумф порока W. S. Gilbert
SOME WISE ADVICE
    THE TOP 50 THINGS I’D DO IF I EVER BECAME AN EVIL OVERLORD / 50 советов Повелителю Зла Peter Anspach
    HOW TO BE FANTASTIC / Как стать героем приключенческой истории Elizabeth Counihan
HERSHEY’S KISSES / Поцелуй Хёрши Ron Goulart
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE BEARS / Бегство с планеты медведей Tom Holt
QUEST / Поход искателей Sue Anderson
THE HILLS BEHIND HOLLYWOOD HIGH / Голливудские холмы Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
THE AFFLICTION OF BARON HUMPFELHIMMEL / Странный недуг барона Гумпфельхиммеля John Kendrick Bangs
A GAGGLE OF GANGSTERS
    THE CASE OF THE FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS / Дело сорока семи сорок Neil Gaiman
    THE MAN WHO HATED CADILLACS / Человек, который ненавидел «кадиллаки» E. K. Grant
THE ULTIMATE / Высший ритуал Seamus Cullen
A FANCY OF FAIRY TALES
    THE STAR OF THE FARMYARD / Звезда нашей фермы Terry Jones
    DIAMONDS – BLACK AND WHITE / Алмазы черные, алмазы белые Anthony Armstrong
AN INKLING OF IMPS
    MALOCCHIO Eliot Fintushel
    THE METROGNOME / Метрогном Alan Dean Foster
THE EYE OF TANDYLA / Глаз Тандилы L. Sprague de Camp
THE OUTPOST UNDISCOVERED BY TOURISTS / Аванпост, не открытый туристами Harlan Ellison
THE METROGNOME

Alan Dean Foster

Charlie Dimsdale stared at the man in front of him. Even under ordinary circumstances Charlie Dimsdale would have stared at the man in front of him. However, this confrontation was taking place in the lowest level of the Fifty-Second Street Bronx subway line, a good many metres beneath the hysterical surface of Manhattan. It was just short of preordained that Charlie Dimsdale would stare at the man in front of him.
The man in front of Charlie Dimsdale stood slightly over a metre high. He was broad out of all proportion in selected places. His head especially was even larger than that of a normal-sized man. Its most notable feature was a proboscis that would be flattered by the appellation bulbous. This remarkable protuberance was bordered by a pair of huge jet-black eyes that hid beneath black eyebrows a Kodiak bear would have been proud of. Two enormous floppy ears, the shape and colour of dried apricots, fluttered sideways from the head, their span a truly impressive sight.
The pate itself was as bald and round as the bottom of a china teacup. A good portion of it was covered by a jaunty red beret set at a rakish angle to the left. Huge black muttonchop whiskers rambled like a giant caterpillar across his face.
Arms that were too long for the short torso ended in thick, stubby fingers. Black hair, well cultivated, grew there in profusion. In addition to the beret, he wore a double-breasted pinstripe jacket with matching trousers. His black Oxfords were immaculately polished.
Had such a confrontation occurred anywhere else in the world with an appropriate Dimsdale substitute, it is likely that said Dimsdale substitute would have fainted quickly away. Charlie Dimsdale, however, merely gulped and took a step backward.
After all, this was New York.
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