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In extreme fantasy anything can happen. In Mike Ashleys 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).

For too long fantasy fiction has become synonymous with vast heroic-fantasy adventures in imitation of The Lord of the Rings, 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.

Ashley 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.

The 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.

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy

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