Do wizards were funny hats? Do dragons have bad breath? Do dwarves have long, silly names without any vowels? Elf-indulgent collections of tales that skew the knight life, mock the magic, and hoot at hellspawn. By Boucher, Effinger, Ellison, Friesner, Res
This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic,
