Title: Masters of fantasy without fantasy
Product review: This anthology has the subtitle "Masters of fantasy", but the stories in it are neither masterful nor fantastic. Of the eleven short stories, only LeGuin's story truly deserves the subtitle with its beautiful language and sense of magic. Pratchett and Jordan shows solid handiwork; Pratchett giving insights in witchcraft, headology and the personality of Esmeralda Weatherwax and Jordan with a well-paced prequel to his Wheel of Time books.Of the rest, only Martin's story is decent. While it's well-written and original it is totally lacking any feeling of fantasy. The rest either lack fantasy feeling (Feist, McCaffrey, Silverberg), are cliched (King, McCaffrey), simply badly written (Feist) or manage to roll all the bad points of every other story into a big heap whose only virtue is showing everything that can be done wrong with epic fantasy (Goodkind).I never managed to finish the stories by Card or Williams.
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