Book cover for Christmas Magic by David G. Hartwell

Christmas Magic

2016 Released
496 Pages
8-12 Hours
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St. Martins Press-3PLISBN 9780765315809

Collected by award-winning anthologist David G. Hartwell, here is a stockingful of classic Christmas fantasies

Wonders abound at Christmas, and never more so than in this delightful collection of holiday stories by some of today's most gifted writers of fantasy and science-fiction. In this volume, Harlan Ellison, Alan Dean Foster, Kit Reed, Howard Waldrop, Donald Westlake, and many other science fiction and fantasy stars present their unique visions of Christmas.

Toys come to life for one miraculous hour. A little girl sets forth on a quest to join Santa's elves. Talking animals, away in a manger, bring two lovers together, and a small boy discovers the secret of Santa's tenth reindeer. These and other stories raise Christmas spirits to fantastic new heights, and find unexpected twists and surprises in even the oldest of holiday traditions.

Sorcery comes gift wrapped this year, and just in time for Christmas Magic.

David G. Hartwell

David G. Hartwell is a senior editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the president of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He is on the board of the IAFA, is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

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