Army of the Fantastic: 13 Original Tales of Magical Creatures Fighting in Fantastical Realms and Our Own Transformed World

320 pp. "This engaging theme anthology showcases magical beings at war, sometimes siding with, sometimes in opposition to, humans, and sometimes . . . well, read and find out. Jean Rabe gives us a dragon's stint with the Luftwaffe. Mickey Zucker Reichert offers faerie folk claiming a stretch of Iowa. Tanya Huff pits selkies (shape-changing seal-humans) against sea monsters. Kristine Kathryn Rusch gives magical tang to a conflict possessing a distinct World War I flavor. And Jody Lynn Nye portrays a battle for tolerance when the offspring of a harpy and a centaur tries to enlist. The other eight contributors are seasoned fantasists, too." - Booklist CONTENTS: Introduction by John Marco; Focke-Drache by Jean Rabe; Over the Top by Rick Hautala; The Blood of the People by Fiona Patton; Brothers In Arms by Tim Waggoner; Unnatural by Alan Dean Foster; Blood In the Water by Tanya Huff; Iowa Under Siege by Mickey Zucker Reichert; Teeth In the Sand by Russell Davis; The Twain Shall Meet by Bill Fawcett; Airborne by Jody Lynn Nye; Demon's Touch by James Barclay; Dispatches From the Front by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Wildest Dreams by Michael A. Stackpole