"EB - Rosalind M. and Martin H. Greenberg - Christmas BestiaryUC - Compilation" - читать интересную книгу автора (Greenberg Martin H)

by Barry N. Malzberg

I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 175

by Tanya Huff

BIRTHNIGHT 199

by Michelle M. Sagara

OX AND ASS BEFORE HIM BOW 219

by Mark Aronson

FATE 229

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

THE LAST SPHINX 245

by Barbara Delaplace

THE BEST LAID SCHEMES 257

by Jack Nimersheim

THE GIFT OF THE MAGICIANS,

WITH APOLOGIES TO

YOU KNOW WHO 279

by Jane Yolen

THE BLUE-NOSED REINDEER 285

by Mike Resnick

INTRODUCTION

by Stefan Dziemiancywicz

The bestiary is a literary subgenre that enjoyed its
greatest popularity in Europe during the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries. Its origins, however, date at
least as far back as 2 A.D., purportedly to ancient
Greece. The prototype of all bestiaries, the Physiolo-
gus, was a compendium of forty-eight stories written
by an anonymous author. Each of the selections was
told in the form of an allegory derived from the natu-