{"product_id":"9781780332826","title":"The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn extreme fantasy \u003ci\u003eanything can happen\u003c\/i\u003e. In Mike Ashley's breathtaking new anthology the only rules are those the writer makes - these are stories to liberate both the writers' and readers' imagination. They will take you to hell and back (literally - two of the stories involve hell in ways never explored before).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor too long fantasy fiction has become synonymous with vast heroic-fantasy adventures in imitation of \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e, but the genre has always been far greater than dwarves and elves. Today many writers are rediscovering the wider world of fantasy and creating bold new ideas or magically reworking older arts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley selects 25 stories by the likes of Orson Scott Card, Paul Di Filippo, A. A. Attanasio, Michael Swanwick, Christopher Priest and Peter Crowther, arranged in ascending order of 'extremeness'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anthology opens with a story that takes us beyond Middle Earth in 'Senator Bilbo' by Andy Duncan - showing what happens when a radical descendant of his famous namesake tries to introduce immigration control - and reaches the ultimate in 'The Dark One' by A. A. Attanasio, a rite of passage story where you, the reader, discover you are being tested to become the successor to Satan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther stories include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man with a terminal disease looks for a cure in a world where Edward Lear meets Lewis Carroll.\u003cbr\u003eA man decides to banish all language.\u003cbr\u003eA tour of Hell by the boatman himself.\u003cbr\u003eThe great comic stars of Hollywood find themselves seeking their lost world.\u003cbr\u003eA magical experiment recreates the Crucifixion.\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly all colour drains out of the world.\u003cbr\u003eA magical recreation of Chinese fantasy cinema where a magician and his adepts fight the flying dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152233251056,"sku":"9781780332826","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780332826_p0.jpg?v=1769891059","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780332826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}