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The Starlit Wood by Catherynne M. Valente, Margo Lanagan, Garth Nix, Karin Tidbeck, Sofia Samatar, Dominik Parisien, Stephen Graham Jones, Navah Wolfe, Kat Howard, Genevieve Valentine, Max Gladstone, Daryl Gregory, Aliette de Bodard, Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Theodora Goss, Marjorie M. Liu, Amal El-Mohtar, Naomi Novik, Jeffrey Ford

4.0

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A lovely collection of alternate fairy tales that take place in a range of settings familiar medieval, mid west, contemporary and distant future each with a very modern message that often challenges the conventional fairytale norms as tropes are subverted. Happy endings discarded for synesthesic truth, cursed princesses empowered to become renegades and the wicked other seen as a necessary part of the self