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The Avram Davidson Treasury

A Tribute Collection

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The Avram Davidson Treasury

By: Avram Davidson, Robert Silverberg, Grania Davis
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, Mirron Willis, John Rubinstein, Justine Eyre, Paul Boehmer, Kate Orsini, Orson Scott Card
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Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines.

Now, his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, Gene Wolfe, Guy Davenport, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, Thomas M. Disch, and dozens of others. This is a volume every lover of fantasy will need to own.

©1998 Grania Davis (P)2020 Skyboat Media, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Short Story Short Fiction Anthology
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Critic reviews

“Not merely a treasury, it’s a genuine treasure. Some of its pages will carry you away to strange seas and shores, others will show you the marvelous within the seemingly ordinary, and just about all of them will take your breath away. But that’s what magicians do.”

(Washington Post Book World)

“Davidson had one of the most original imaginations in the history of American SF and fantasy…and he deserves to be enjoyed by generations of ordinary readers rather than left to the dubious mercy of SF academics.”

(Booklist)
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in the afterwards it's prescribed 1 or 2 stories per night.
it's true.
I re-listened some of them. 2nd time was better.
despite the adulation, it really was excellent

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Didn`t get very far with this sorry collection. Stories very much "of their time" and much preamble to let us know what a great character and author he was back in the day. If you want to hear blatantly unfashionable racism, promotion of slavery, random Jewish stereotypes and some very unfunny and obscure tales, then by all means have at it. There is a good reason this author is not heard of much today. I was expecting the kind of science fiction and fantasy tales I enjoyed in my childhood but was sadly disappointed. He may have been lauded at some point in the distant past but it is telling that he ultimately died in penury. Save yourself the time and give this one a miss.

No idea why this author deserves a tribute .

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