George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Joe Abercrombie, Gillian Flynn, Matthew Hughes, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Swanwick, David Ball, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Lynch, Bradley Denton, Cherie Priest, Daniel Abraham, Paul Cornell, Steven Saylor, Garth Nix, Walter Jon Williams, Phyllis Eisenstein, Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Patrick Rothfuss - Rogues

Authors: George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Joe Abercrombie, Gillian Flynn, Matthew Hughes , Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Swanwick, David Ball, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Lynch, Bradley Denton, Cherie Priest, Daniel Abraham, Paul Cornell, Steven Saylor, Garth Nix, Walter Jon Williams, Phyllis Eisenstein, Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Patrick Rothfuss
Title: Rogues
Language: English
Format: hardcover
Rating: 4 stars
No of pages: 806
Read: July 2020
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BLURB:

If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R.R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire.

Follow along with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix, and Connie Willis, as well as other masters of literary sleight-of-hand, in this rogues gallery of stories that will plunder your heart — and yet leave you all the richer for it.

Contents:

- Tough Times All Over by Joe Abercrombie (a Red Country story)

- What Do You Do? (aka The Grownup) by Gillian Flynn

- The Inn of the Seven Blessings by Matthew Hughes

- Bent Twig by Joe R. Lansdale (a Hap and Leonard story)

- Tawny Petticoats by Michael Swanwick

- Provenance by David Ball

- The Roaring Twenties by Carrie Vaughn

- A Year and a Day in Old Theradane by Scott Lynch

- Bad Brass by Bradley Denton

- Heavy Metal by Cherie Priest

- The Meaning of Love by Daniel Abraham

- A Better Way to Die by Paul Cornell (a Jonathan Hamilton story)

- Ill Seen in Tyre by Steven Saylor

- A Cargo of Ivories by Garth Nix (a Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz story)

- Diamonds From Tequila by Walter Jon Williams (a Dagmar story)

- The Caravan to Nowhere by Phyllis Eisenstein (a Tales of Alaric the Minstrel story)

- The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives by Lisa Tuttle

- How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman (a Neverwhere story)

- Now Showing by Connie Willis

- The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss (a Kingkiller Chronicle story)

- The Rogue Prince, or, A King’s Brother by George R.R. Martin (a Song of Ice and Fire story)

This is a book that took me long time to read. Mostly because the writing is so small and I got distracted by other things. But I managed to finish it finally. 

All in all, I liked the book. It has a lot of different stories (all about rogues...duh) from different authors and they all were quite interesting, I'd say. 

In the book, before each story, there is an introduction of the author where they mention their famous books as well. So in case you like that authors story and writing type, you can easily check out their other books (not that you couldn't do it otherwise :P).

I started reading this book because I wanted to read the story by Patrick Rothfuss. At first I considered reading only that one.. but I  changed my mind, and read all stories in order. Why that story especially, you might ask... because that story is about Bast. If you have read the Kingkiller Chronicle's, you know who that is..if not, well then you are in for a surprise :)

I also enjoyed other stories, my favorites were "The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives" by Lisa Tuttle; "The Caravan to Nowhere" by Phyllis Eisenstein and "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane" by Scott Lynch. All of these are different, but really got me hooked :)