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    Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
    Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
    Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
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    Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

    By Tanya Huff

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    Explore uncharted territory in this collection of heroic fantasy shorts from Tanya Huff. Annotations provide background and insight on each story. Peppered with Huff’s trademark tongue-in-cheek wit and the brilliant, funny, wise, ruthless heroines that have made her famous, this is a collection you won’t want to miss.

    Travel to Camelot in “Nights of the Round Table” and to ancient Egypt in “Succession”. Revisit beloved fairytales in “All Things Being Relative”. Sail the seas in “Blood in the Water” and “Oh Glorious Sight”. Also includes “What Little Girls Are Made Of,” “A Woman’s Work”, and “Slow Poison”.

    Nights Of The Round Table And Other Stories is the first of a series of Tanya Huff short story collections. Published as e-book exclusives and featuring all-new cover art, many of the stories in these collections have never been collected before, or are only available in hard-to-find limited editions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
    Release dateOct 12, 2011
    ISBN9781936535552
    Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
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    Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario with her wife Fiona Patton, five cats, and an increasing number of fish. Her 32 novels and 83 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her BLOOD series was turned into the 22-episode Blood Ties and writing episode nine allowed her to finally use her degree in Radio & Television Arts. Many of her short stories are available as eCollections. She’s on Twitter at @TanyaHuff and Facebook as Tanya Huff. She has never used her Instagram account and isn’t sure why she has it.

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    • 4/5
      This is another half-and-half reread, but the ones that were familiar I hadn't read in some time. In fact, the last story in the book is one I'd read long ago and lost - I'd forgotten who it was by, let alone the title - so I'm delighted to rediscover Slow Poison. There are several stories with very similar themes - various queens, evil and otherwise, dealing with challengers. But they do differ, enough that each one is interesting. I also very much enjoyed her quick intro to each story - a bit about how each came to be written (mostly, though not entirely, for themed anthologies) and what Huff thought of each.
    • 4/5
      Nights of the Round Table is a fun collection of fantasy stories characterised by gentle humour and strong, non-typical female protagonists. Larger women, middle aged women, lower class women... None of them are helpless: they're resourceful and competent -- and they aren't focused entirely around their children, either, which is very satisfying.

      My main criticism is that this collection comes to be a little predictable. The turn of the humour is the same in each, so you begin to see where each one is going. Still very enjoyable, though.

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