The book features sixteen original stories separated into three sections: Once, Present, and Future, and is written by notables and award-winning authors such as Maria Dahvana Headley, Waubgeshig Rice, S. This book goes beyond “hella cool”: it leaves “hella cool” in the dust! I finally absorbed the opening pitch: “Where are the gender-bent King Arthur stories? The race-bent retellings, the queered ones?” And I thought, wait, this sounds hella cool.ĭear readers, I was not disappointed.
Later, when I was struggling to settle on a book to review, I came upon the email again: “ SWORD STONE TABLE: Old Legends, New Voices.” This time I noted the editor names, as well as some of the author names. So, I initially didn’t read the details in that email. For Arthurian tales there exists a Wikipedia page, “List of works based on Arthurian legends,” which is too massive to count the entries, and even then, the list is probably not exhaustive. And the great bulk of them (at least, to my taste) just don’t do enough to be interesting, or to set themselves apart. Many people love retellings of fables, myths, and so on, but for me, well. When I first received an email about a book reimagining King Arthur stories, I groaned inside. Speaking of King Arthur, this brings me to the point of this review. about dragons.) Even the recent Hugo ballot has a few titles which revisit old ideas, such as Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf and Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn, the latter of which tackles the King Arthur myths via their descendants. On the recently announced 2021 Locus Awards Finalist list, two of the anthologies are themed around very familiar topics: Jonathan Strahan’s Made to Order (about robots) and The Book of Dragons (. Kong, the latest reimagining of a creature which has starred in over thirty movies, not to mention being the center of other types of media and I just watched the latest Mortal Kombat flick and Kung Fu episode, both of which revisit popular concepts.
Some people love them, some people are tired of them, and for some people, it depends on the topic.Īs I write this, Josh Pearce and I just posted our Locus film review of Godzilla vs. Remakes are a big part of our culture of the fantastic. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, editors Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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