The Mythic Dream

Name: The Mythic Dream
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Dominik Parisien
ISBN: 9781797100708

Author: Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe

Narrator: Samantha Desz

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Collections & Anthologies, Fairy Tales & Legends

Synopsis

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations.

Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.

About Dominik Parisien

Dominik Parisien is an editor, poet, and writer. He is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Mythic Dream, Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood. Together their anthologies have won the Shirley Jackson Award and have been finalists for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Locus Award. He also won the Hugo, British Fantasy, and Aurora Award for co-editing Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction with Elsa Sjunneson. His debut poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual French Canadian. He lives in Toronto.

About Navah Wolfe

Navah Wolfe is a Hugo Award–nominated editor at Saga Press and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream, along with Dominik Parisien. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she worked on many bestselling books, including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor, The Pura Belpré Award, The Pen/Faulkner Award, The Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Schneider Family Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie

➽ Robots vs. Fairies ★★★ ━━♡ Phantoms of the Midway by Seanan McGuire ★★★ a very beautiful, smart, sweet, and sapphic hades + persephone reimagining. our main character lives with her mom among a traveling circus, but this current stop is going to be very different for them both. i didn't love this at......more

Goodreads review by The Artisan Geek

------------------VIDEO REVIEW------------------ 10/11/19 I finished reading The Mythic Dream last week and what a stunner it was!! In this anthology a host of amazingly talented authors reimagine old myths, interrogating issues of gender, politics, sexuality, patriarchy, power dynamics and family. Th......more

Goodreads review by Sahitya

Average Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️.9 I’m always looking for anthologies, particularly fantasy ones because I find it to be an excellent opportunity to discover new authors. So, when I happened upon this one during my endless browsing on goodreads, I knew I had to read it. I was also impressed when I saw that it......more

Quotes

"Narrator Samantha Desz metaphorically travels worldwide for this anthology of 18 short stories by various authors. Each is a retelling of a myth—some familiar, some not. In addition to Greek myths, the listener will hear works that are Japanese, North American Indian, Norse, Jewish, and more. For example, in Naomi Novik's 'Buried Deep,' Desz makes the love of a sister and brother in the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur unforgettable. She also creates a haunting persona in Sarah Gailey's 'Wild to Cove,' a retelling involving Thetis, the mother of Achilles. In a more contemporary retelling of Artemis and Actaeon, Alyssa Wong's 'Live Stream,' Desz portrays a gamer who is executing a revenge plan toward a creep who posted a video of her. Without a touch of foreshadowing, she makes the ending that much sweeter."