VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (ed.) - The Big Book of Modern Fantasy / Вандермеер, Джефф и Энн (ред.) - Большая книга современной фэнтези [2019, EPUB, ENG]

Ten Rounds with Grandfather Clock by Maurice Richardson The Circular Valley / Круглая долина by Paul Bowles Signs and Symbols / Знаки и знамения by Vladimir Nabokov The Zahir / Заир by Jorge Luis Borges Liane the Wayfarer / Лайан-Странник by Jack Vance Poolwana's Orchid by Edgar Mittelholzer The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair O Ugly Bird! by Manly Wade Wellman My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (excerpt) / Моя жизнь в Лесу Духов by Amos Tutuola A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Очень старый человек с огромными крыльями by Gabriel García Márquez The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson Lean Times in Lankhmar / Глухая пора в Ланкмаре by Fritz Leiber The Dreaming City / Грезящий город by Michael Moorcock Kaya-Kalp (Metamorphosis) by Intizar Husain The Last Dragon in the World / История о последнем драконе на свете by Tove Jansson The Drowned Giant / Утонувший великан by J. G. Ballard The Monster by Satu Waltari Narrow Valley / Узкая долина by R. A. Lafferty The Sinister Apartment (Excerpt from The Master and Margarita) / Нехорошая квартира by Mikhail Bulgakov The Origin of the Birds / Происхождение птиц by Italo Calvino The Prey by Bilge Karasu The Topless Tower by Silvina Ocampo The Barbarian by Joanna Russ The Youngest Doll by Rosario Ferré The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Уходящие из Омеласа by Ursula K. Le Guin Ark of Bones by Henry Dumas Winged Creatures by Sylvia Townsend Warner Linnaeus Forgets by Fred Chappell The Erl-King / Лесной царь by Angela Carter The Great Night of the Trains by Sara Gallardo The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers by Samuel R. Delany The White Horse Child / Троянская лошадка by Greg Bear The Dreamstone by C. J. Cherryh Five Letters from an Eastern Empire / Пять писем из Восточной империи by Alasdair Gray The Ice Dragon / Ледяной дракон by George R. R. Martin One Time by Leslie Marmon Silko Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen The Luck in the Head / Счастливая голова by M. John Harrison Warlock at the Wheel / Кудесник на колёсах by Diana Wynne Jones Mrs. Todd's Shortcut / Короткая дорога миссис Тодд by Stephen King On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops by Pat Murphy After the Hurricane by Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood by Rachel Pollack The Bystander by Leena Krohn Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme by Karen Joy Fowler The Mole King by Marie Hermanson What the Tapster Saw by Ben Okri The Fool by David Drake The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio Tabucchi A Mexican Fairy Tale by Leonora Carrington The Boy in the Tree by Elizabeth Hand TV People / TV-люди by Haruki Murakami Alice in Prague or The Curious Room / Алиса в Праге, или Странная Комната by Angela Carter Moon Songs by Carol Emshwiller The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII / Жизнь и приключения сарая Номер XII by Victor Pelevin The Fellowship of the Dragon / Братство дракона by Patricia A. McKillip Troll Bridge / Мост троллей by Terry Pratchett Longing for Blood by Vilma Kadlečková A Brief Visit to Bonnyville by D. F. Lewis Travels with the Snow Queen / Путешествия со Снежной Королевой by Kelly Link The Neurosis of Containment by Rikki Ducornet The Darktree Wheel by Rhys Hughes Foetus by Shelley Jackson Tan-Tan and Dry Bone by Nalo Hopkinson Where Does the Town Go at Night? by Tanith Lee Pop Art / Хлоп арт by Joe Hill State Secrets of Aphasia by Stepan Chapman The Window / Окошко by Tatyana Tolstaya The Weight of Words by Jeffrey Ford All the Water in the World by Han Song The Kite of Stars / L'Aquilone du Estrellas (К звёздам на воздушном змее) by Dean Francis Alfar Mogo by Alberto Chimal The Malady of Ghostly Cities by Nathan Ballingrud End of the Line by Aimee Bender I Left My Heart in Skaftafell by Victor LaValle The Grassdreaming Tree by Sheree Renée Thomas La Peau Verte by Caitlín R. Kiernan A Hard Truth About Waste Management by Sumanth Prabhaker Bufo Rex by Erik Amundsen The Arrest of the Great Mimille by Antoine Volodine Aunts by Karin Tidbeck For Life by Marta Kisiel The Spring of Dongke Temple by Qitongren The Wordeaters by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Creature by Ramsey Shehadeh Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe / За морскими воротами учёных-пиратов Сарске by Garth Nix The Bear Dresser's Secret by Richard Bowes Table with Ocean by Alberto Chimal The Jinn Darazgosh: A Fable Relating How the Curiosity of a Jinn Led to Unhappy Results and Brought About the Closure of the Heavens Upon His Race by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

A GREAT CRY ROSE throughout the land: Queen Celandine had lost her harper. She summoned north, south, east, west; we rode for days through the rain to meet, the five of us, at Trillium; from there we rode to Carnelaine. The world had come to her great court, for though we lived too far from her to hear her fabled harper play, we heard the rumor that at each Cull moon she gave him gloves of cloth of gold and filled his mouth with jewels. As we stood in the hall among her shining company, listening to her pleas for help, Justin, who is the riddler among us, whispered, “What is invisible but everywhere, swift as wind but has no feet, and has as many tongues that speak but never has a face?” “Easy,” I breathed. “Rumor.” “Rumor, that shy beast, says she valued his hands for more than his harping, and she filled his mouth with more than jewels.” I was hardly surprised. Celandine is as beautiful close as she is at a distance; she has been so for years, with the aid of a streak of sorcery she inherited through a bit of murkiness, an imprecise history of the distaff side, and she is not one to waste her gifts. She had married honorably, loved faithfully, raised her heirs well. When her husband died a decade ago, she mourned him with the good-hearted efficiency she had brought to marriage and throne. Her hair showed which way the wind was blowing, and the way that silver, ash, and gold worked among the court was magical. But when we grew close enough to kneel before her, I saw that the harper was no idle indulgence, but had sung his way into her blood. “You five,” she said softly, “I trust more than all my court. I rely on you.” Her eyes, green as her name, were grim; I saw the tiny lines of fear and temper beside her mouth. “There are some in this hall who—because I have not been entirely wise or tactful—would sooner see the harper dead than rescue him.” “Do you know where he is?” . . .