{"id":8618,"date":"2017-01-17T19:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:31:01","slug":"beyond-the-pale-a-fantasy-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8618","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology<\/a><\/em> (2014) edited by Henry Herz<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I probably started reading this right after it came out, and got hung up on a single story. Two years later I decided to skip through the stories that didn’t interest me and finish the anthology.<\/p>\n

\u201cHooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela\u201d by Saladin Ahmed<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Children of the Shark God\u201d by Peter S. Beagle<\/a>
\n\u201cMisery\u201d by Heather Brewer
\n\u201cShadow Children\u201d by Heather Brewer
\n\u201cEven Hand\u201d by Jim Butcher<\/a>
\n\u201cRed Run\u201d by Kami Garcia
\n\u201cPale Rider\u201d by Nancy Holder<\/a>
\n\u201cFrost Child\u201d by Gillian Philip
\n\u201cSouth\u201d by Gillian Philip
\n\u201cA Knot of Toads\u201d by Jane Yolen<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Adventures of Lightning Merriemouse-Jones\u201d by Nancy & Belle Holder<\/a><\/p>\n

The noun \u201cpale\u201d refers to a stake (as in impaling vampires) or pointed piece of wood (as in a paling fence). \u201cPale\u201d came to refer to an area enclosed by a paling fence. Later, it acquired the figurative meaning of an enclosed and therefore safe domain. Conversely, “beyond the pale” means foreign, strange, or threatening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela\u201d by Saladin Ahmed was one of the stories I liked. A young man of education and learning–a court physician–is all but exiled, but finds patients even in his exile.<\/p>\n

(A) man is not merely who he is, but what he has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Children of the Shark God\u201d by Peter S. Beagle is the tale a a young woman who weds the shark god, and the adventures of her children as they search out their father.<\/p>\n

(C)ourage and attention are not the same thing. Listening is not the same as hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMisery\u201d by Heather Brewer was a story I struggled to finish. But I did finish it.<\/p>\n

\u201cShadow Children\u201d by Heather Brewer was a just plain distressing story. But I finished it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Hand\u201d by Jim Butcher is a Dresden files story told from the POV of the bad guy, Johnny Marcone.<\/p>\n

After a few visits from Dresden and his ilk, I had invested in cheap, light doors at dramatic (as opposed to tactical) entry points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cRed Run\u201d by Kami Garcia is a ghost story, where the girl wants revenge on the ghost who killed her brother. I really liked this story.<\/p>\n

\u201cPale Rider\u201d by Nancy Holder I ended up skimming, since it was mostly a dystopia, and I don’t enjoy dystopias.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrost Child\u201d by Gillian Philip I skimmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth\u201d by Gillian Philip is the story or a grandfather, remembering his wife. Mostly.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Knot of Toads\u201d by Jane Yolen I quite liked. A young woman returns home for her father’s death–although it ends up being his funeral. There is something strange about his death, but no one will say anything straight out, perhaps because she’s been gone for so long she is no longer one of them, or perhaps because they don’t want to call bad things by speaking of them.<\/p>\n

Even at five and six and seven I\u2019d been an unbeliever. Not having a mother had made me so. How could I worship a God whom both Mrs. Marr and my father assured me had so wanted mother, He\u2019d called her away. A selfish God, that, who had listened to his own desires and not mine. Such a God was not for me. Not then. Not now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Adventures of Lightning Merriemouse-Jones\u201d by Nancy & Belle Holder is a silly and fun story, a good way to end the anthology.<\/p>\n

Dracula, but with mice.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Birch Tree Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology (2014) edited by Henry Herz I probably started reading this right after it came out, and got hung up on a single story. Two years later I decided to skip through the stories that didn’t interest me and finish the anthology. \u201cHooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela\u201d by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2,8,16],"tags":[737,475,246,317,313],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-supernatural","tag-ghosts","tag-jane-yolen","tag-jim-butcher","tag-peter-s-beagle","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2f0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2709,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2709","url_meta":{"origin":8618,"position":0},"title":"Naked City","author":"Michelle","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Naked City (2011) edited by Ellen Datlow This collection of urban fantasy stories has several of my favorite authors, so it was a no-brainer to get. 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