Why does he keep it? What can it mean to him? A rock might be the toy of a child who can’t afford any better ones.
How do you find it? Will it be found in time?Ī rock can be a paperweight on the desk of an old, cruel man. (Oops, I said I wasn’t going to do murderous stones.) As an ordinary-sized stone, it might be the key to a mystery-perhaps it has a bit of important DNA on it, or a few scratchings of a forgotten race of humanity-but it’s lost among thousands of nearly identical stones. It might have rolled down a hill and killed your entire family. It might be blocking your path in the middle of an important journey. What if you were the size of an ant? That simple stone is now something quite large. But we don’t even need to deal with the homicidal aspect of stones to find stories. And David killed the giant Goliath with a stone, too. That’s a pretty famous story right there, if a trifle on the brutal side. Well, Cain picked up a stone like that and killed his brother Abel.
Just a nice, smooth stone, about the size of your closed fist-not a gemstone, nothing so easy. They’re in every word, every experience, every object. Stories are all around, infinite in their numbers. They’re already there and they just need to be recognized. Here’s the truth, at least as I know it: they don’t come from anywhere. Here do stories come from? That’s a question I hear a lot. Whether you are a devoted reader of his longer works, already a devotee of his short fiction, or even new to his writing entirely, The Very Best of Tad Williams is the perfect place to discover one of the most talented and versatile authors writing at any length today. Here are the stories that showcase the exhilarating breadth of Williams' imagination, hearkening back to such classic fantasists as J. Martin cited as an inspiration for Game of Thrones-to the classic novel Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams has mastered every genre he has set his pen to. Within these pages you will find such delightful and curious things as a strange storytelling vampire, two woefully-overmatched angels, a dragon in cahoots with a knight and a witch, an ineptly duplicitous fish, the loyal robot butler of Werner Von Secondstage Booster, and the Greatest Wizard of All (disputed).įrom his epic fantasy series, including Memory Sorrow and Thorn-which George R. “This marvelous short fiction retrospective testifies to the breadth of Williams's creativity.”
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