The Earth is Flat

Sunday , 16, April 2023 Morgan Book Review, Fiction 1 Comment

The Earth is Flat by Tanith Lee is a new collection from DMR Books. This was just published in March.

The book is 274 pages containing fourteen stories, five from her “Flat Earth” sequence. The other nine stories are in a section called “Tales from Elsewhere.”

Contents:

Story			Original Appearance

The Origin of Snow			Tanith Lee Website, December 2002
The Man Who Stole the Moon			Realms of Fantasy, Feb. 2001
The Snake			Realms of Fantasy, June 2008
The Pain of Glass			Clockwork Phoenix 2, 2009
I Bring You Forever			Realms of Fantasy, June 1998
Foolish, Clever, Wicked, and Kind			Tales of the Arabian Nights (Avon, 1988)
Blue Vase of Ghosts			Dragonfields, Winter 1983
After I Killed Her			Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1997
Cold Spell			Young Winter’s Tales 7, 1976
Beauty is the Beast			American Fantasy, Fall 1986
Into Gold			Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1986
The God Orkrem			Fantasy Magazine, March 2011
The Truce			The DAW Science Fiction Reader (DAW Books, 1976)
The Kingdom of the Air			Weird Tales, Summer 1988

The stories range across Lee’s career from beginning to almost the end. There are some obscurities included therein. I never knew Lee had any stories in Realms of Fantasy. That was a magazine I glanced at once in a while back in the 90s but never bought an issue. I have never seen a copy of Dragonfields for sale.

This anthology thematically works well as the stories are all the extreme end of the fantastic. If I had to make some sort of comparison, I would say Lord Dunsany though his style is breezier. Lee’s style has a more mythic quality lacking any tinsel. This book makes a nice companion on the shelf next to The Empress of Dreams.

You can order directly from DMR Books in either trade paperback format.

The Earth is Flat

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