Astounding Hero Tales
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Editor | James Lowder |
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Cover artist | J. Allen St. John |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Hero Games |
Publication date | 2007 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | xvi, 304 |
ISBN | 1-58366-060-7 |
Astounding Hero Tales is a fiction anthology edited by James Lowder and published by Hero Games in March 2007.[1]
Contents[]
- "Death was silent" (Lester Dent)
- "The mask of Kukulcan" (Will Murray)
- "Two-fisted crookback" ()
- "Wolf train west" (William Messner-Loebs)
- "Godmother" ()
- "Missing pages" (Richard Dansky)
- "Running thunder" ()
- "Playback" ()
- "A lost city of the jungle" (Darrell Schweitzer)
- "It came from the swamp" (Ed Greenwood)
- "Slide home" (David Niall Wilson)
- "Out west" (John Pelan)
- "Bandit gold" (Thomas M. Reid)
- "Kiss me deadly" (Robert Weinberg)
- "The forgotten man" (Robin D. Laws)
- "House of shadows" (Hugh B. Cave)
Awards[]
Astounding Hero Tales won the 2007 Origins Award for Best Fiction Publication of the Year.[2]
Reception[]
The anthology was reviewed by Scott Connors in Weird Tales, March-April 2008, and Jackson Kuhl in Black Gate, Summer 2008.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Astounding Hero Tales title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ "Origins Awards - Game Manufacturers Association". www.gama.org.
Categories:
- 2007 short story collections
- Novels based on role-playing games