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Welcome to Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder!

Every Monday throughout Wyrd and Wonder, we’re going to recommend a fantasy read in five words.

This week, we’re celebrating shorter reads in fantasy – believe it or not, not every fantasy book out there is an absolute unit. So, let’s take a look at our favourite zines, anthologies, individual short stories, novelettes and/or novellas!

Underlined book titles in bold contain links to reviews on this site.

Beth

Flame and the Flood by Shona Kinsella

Magic-wielding

emancipators

face

betrayal 

Nils

A Mirror Mended by Alix E Harrow

Wicked

Witch

finally

gets

agency 

Asha

The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly

Memory-infused

pastries;

delicious

revenge

Lucy

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Parallel-worlds,

talking

Dinosaurs,

Cryptozoology.

CHAOS

Julia

Frozen Rage by Steve McHugh

Wearbears,

murder

mystery,

sweary

fox!

Theo

Triggernometry by Stark Holborn

Mathematical

angles

on

Fantasy

westerns

No Other Troy by Mark Lawrence

Active

horse

rewrites

the

myth

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Next week will be the last post in this series! We’ll be thinking of fantasy subgenres, and our favourite titles in them.

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