Other Worlds Than These
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529 pages · Released Jul 1, 2012 · Simon and Schuster
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This is an anthology of 27 short stories spanning multiple genres and styles, so content varies significantly by story. Most stories are appropriate for older middle-grade and young adult readers, though a few may contain darker or more mature themes. The collection emphasizes imagination, courage, and wonder, with many stories featuring protagonists who must adapt to unfamiliar worlds. Parents should note that as an anthology, individual story content ranges from light fantasy adventure to more complex speculative fiction.
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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Phil... What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.
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- Alternative histories (Fiction)
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ISBN 9781597804349 · Simon and Schuster