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Magical Wishes

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Cover artist
  
Kinuko Kraft

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1986

Publisher
  
New American Library

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1986

Pages
  
350 pp.

Author
  
Martin H. Greenberg

Genres
  
Fantasy, Science Fiction

Series
  
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy

Editors
  
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg

Similar
  
Works by Martin H Greenberg, Science Fiction books

Magical Wishes is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of wishes edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the seventh volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in November 1986. The first British edition was issued in trade paperback by Robinson in July 1987.

The book collects sixteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Contents

  • "Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So" (Isaac Asimov)
  • "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs)
  • "Behind the News" (Jack Finney)
  • "The Flight of the Umbrella" (Marvin Kaye)
  • "Tween" (J. F. Bone)
  • "The Boy Who Brought Love" (Edward D. Hoch)
  • "The Vacation" (Ray Bradbury)
  • "The Anything Box" (Zenna Henderson)
  • "A Born Charmer" (Edward P. Hughes)
  • "What If ..." (Isaac Asimov)
  • "Millennium" (Fredric Brown)
  • "Dreams Are Sacred" (Peter Phillips)
  • "The Same to You Doubled" (Robert Sheckley)
  • "Gifts" (Gordon R. Dickson)
  • "I Wish I May, I Wish I Might" (Bill Pronzini)
  • "Three Day Magic" (Charlotte Armstrong)
  • "The Bottle Imp" (Robert Louis Stevenson)

    • References

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