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Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx, just a few blocks from Woodlawn Cemetery, the inspiration for his first novel, A Fine And Private Place. He originally proclaimed he would be a writer when 10 years old: subsequent events have proven him either prescient or even more stubborn than hitherto suspected. Today, thanks to classic works such as The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song, he is acknowledged as America's greatest living fantasy author; and his dazzling abilities with language, characters, and magical storytelling have earned him many millions of fans around the world.

In addition to stories and novels he has written numerous teleplays and screenplays, including the animated versions of The Lord Of The Rings and The Last Unicorn, plus the fan-favorite "Sarek" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also a gifted poet, lyricist, and singer/songwriter.

In 2007, Beagle won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his original novelette, "Two Hearts," from The Line Between .

For more details on Peter's career and upcoming titles, see either www.peterbeagle.com or www.conlanpress.com.


The Line Between
by Peter S. Beagle

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for "Two Hearts"

Winner of the Washington Science Fiction Small Press Award for "El Regalo"

Nominee for the Mythopoeic Award

Also by Peter S. Beagle:
A Fine & Private Place
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche
We Never Talk About My Brother
Sleight of Hand
Edited by Peter S. Beagle
The Secret History of Fantasy

Cover design and illustration by Ann Monn


"...all ten stories in this book are lucid and refreshing as spring water, full of amusement, humanity, and wisdom."
-Booklist, starred review

America's greatest living fantasist returns, with the signature elegance and originality that has earned him comparisons to J. R. R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Kurt Vonnegut. Readers seeking magic, wonder, and mystery need look no further. In these resonant new stories, some appearing for the first time, you will find bold adventure, sly humor, and resounding depth.

Return to the extraordinary world of The Last Unicorn, in the thrilling and beautiful, "Two Hearts." Observe the World's Most Annoying Eight-Year-Old bend time, fate, and household chores to his sorcerous will. Learn how Soukyan met the Fox, and why a stolen dream might be more dangerous than an unstoppable assassin. Discover the price of a merman's treasure; match wits with the man who saw right through Sherlock Holmes; redefine feline style with Gordon, the self-made cat.

The Line Between is a captivating blend of traditional and contemporary fantasy, crafted by the field's most remarkable imagination. It is a collection you will return to again and again, and treasure forever.

STAR When Beagle's A Fine and Private Place(1960), a story of two ghosts in love, emerged virtually simultaneously with other brilliant debuts by Philip Roth, Reynolds Price, and Wendell Berry, he was hailed as one of their cohort of promising American novelists. The Last Unicorn (1968), however, disclosed him delving more deeply into fantasy (the unicorn is the protagonist, not a metaphor), and he was critically drummed out of the troop. He hardly lost his talent, though, and ever since Last Unicorn, one of the most beloved fantasies ever written, fantasy critics and readers have treasured his work, all the more so because he isn't prolific. For all their variety- "Four Fables," a children's story for all ages, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, an old tar's tall tale, a sequel to one novel (Last Unicorn) and a prequel to another (The Innkeeper's Song, 1993), and the germ of a prospective witch novel - all ten stories in this book are lucid and refreshing as spring water, full of amusement, humanity, and wisdom. Perhaps Beagle is incapable of genuinely dark fantasy, but his tall tale "Salt Wine" touches the tonalities of R. L. Stevenson in "The Bottle Imp" and W. W. Jacobs in "The Monkey's Paw," while on the other end of the spectrum, the Last Unicorn follow-up "Two Hearts" is like Kenneth Grahame's "Reluctant Dragon" with greater gravitas.
-Booklist, starred review

Delicate shadings and subtle prose.
-Publishers Weekly

Each one of the stories gathered here is aimed directly at the heart...
-SF Site

His third and best collection...a cornucopia of delights; mark this as a major contender for Collection of the Year.
-Locus

At his best, Peter S. Beagle outshines the moon, the sun, the stars, the entire galaxy. -Seattle Times

Everything here is quite wonderful.
-Green Man Review

...One of my favorite writers.
-Madeleine L'Engle

A wonderful collection . . . . Each story is a gem. . . . Read it for any reason you can find, but read it. —SFRevu

Everything Beagle writes is a pleasure to read.
-Denver Post

Peter S. Beagle has both opulence of imagination and mastery of style
-New York Times Book Review

 

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