{"id":13134,"date":"2013-06-24T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:58:57","slug":"available-now-unfettered-from-grim-oak-press-ed-shawn-speakman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/news\/available-now-unfettered-from-grim-oak-press-ed-shawn-speakman\/","title":{"rendered":"Available Now: Unfettered<\/em> from Grim Oak Press, ed. Shawn Speakman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unfettered,At long last, Unfettered<\/em>, a fantasy anthology edited by Shawn Speakman, is available for purchase. So, please excuse me while I have a little fangasm.<\/p>\n

If you’re unaware of the anthology, Unfettered<\/em> has a history that stretches back to Speakman, owner of The Signed Page, being diagnosed with Hogdkin\u2019s lymphoma in 2011. Uninsured (due to a past cancer diagnosis), Speakman did the only thing he could think of to deal with the monumental medical bills accrued during his cancer treatment: he called his friends, he made a book.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah… his friends include Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Naomi Novik and Lev Grossman. Each author contributed an original short story to the anthology and, as the title suggests, were not restrained by an overall thematic structure as is often the case with anthologies.<\/p>\n

Authors and stories included in the anthology:<\/p>\n

– Foreword<\/strong> by Patrick Rothfuss
\n– Introduction: On Becoming Unfettered<\/strong>
\n– Imaginary Friends<\/strong> by Terry Brooks
\n– How Old Holly Came To Be<\/strong> by Patrick Rothfuss
\n– The Old Scale Game<\/strong> by Tad Williams
\n– Game of Chance<\/strong> by Carrie Vaughn
\n– The Martyr of the Roses<\/strong> by Jacqueline Carey
\n– Mudboy<\/strong> by Peter V. Brett
\n– The Sound of Broken Absolutes<\/strong> by Peter Orullian
\n– The Coach with Big Teeth<\/strong> by R.A. Salvatore
\n– Keeper of Memory<\/strong> by Todd Lockwood
\n– Heaven in a Wild Flower<\/strong> by Blake Charlton
\n– Dogs<\/strong> by Daniel Abraham
\n– The Chapel Perilous<\/strong> by Kevin Hearne
\n– Select Mode<\/strong> by Mark Lawrence
\n– All the Girls Love Michael Stein<\/strong> by David Anthony Durham
\n– Strange Rain<\/strong> by Jennifer Bosworth
\n– Nocturne<\/strong> by Robert V.S. Redick
\n– Unbowed<\/strong> by Eldon Thompson
\n– In Favour with Their Stars<\/strong> by Naomi Novik
\n– River of Souls<\/strong> by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
\n– The Jester<\/strong> by Michael J. Sullivan
\n– The Duel<\/strong> by Lev Grossman
\n– Walker and the Shade of Allanon<\/strong> by Terry Brooks
\n– The Unfettered Knight<\/strong> by Shawn Speakman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The slam dunk here looks like Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s “River of Souls,” which is a deleted sequence from A Memory of Light<\/em>, which explores the off-screen actions of Bao, the Wyld, who Wheel of Time<\/em> fans might recognize by a different name. With Jordan’s Wheel of Time<\/em> series concluding earlier this year, this on-the-cutting-room-floor excerpt from the series is one last chance to dip a toe into Jordan’s world.<\/p>\n

I’ve not had a chance to read through the entire anthology, but a meander through its pages, along with the handful of stories I have<\/em> read, Unfettered<\/em> seems to live up to its promise of being one of the most comprehensive and exciting anthologies of mainstream fantasy released in years. The Table of Contents won’t set anything afire for pushing boundaries, but the (admittedly male-heavy) list of authors includes Sanderson, Carey, Abraham, and Rothfuss, and looks to provide a variety of short stories that is sure to please readers.<\/p>\n

Unfettered<\/em> can be purchased now from Grim Oak Press<\/a>, Kobo<\/a>, Nook<\/a> and Kindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I provided editorial feedback to Todd Lockwood on his story, <\/em>Keeper of Memory, which appears in <\/em>Unfettered.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At long last, Unfettered, a fantasy anthology edited by Shawn Speakman, is available for purchase. So, please excuse me while I have a little fangasm. If you’re unaware of the anthology, Unfettered has a history that stretches back to Speakman, owner of The Signed Page, being diagnosed with Hogdkin\u2019s lymphoma in 2011. Uninsured (due to… Unfettered<\/em> from Grim Oak Press, ed. Shawn Speakman”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[154,83,122,38,96,193,137,192],"class_list":["post-13134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anthology","tag-brandon-sanderson","tag-daniel-abraham","tag-fantasy","tag-patrick-rothfuss","tag-shawn-speakman","tag-short-fiction","tag-unfettered"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n