Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy 2 Audiobook (Free)

From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple customs of country folk; in the mysterious natures of twins towards the harmful powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous as well as the unsuspecting, magic is usually ultimately a contradiction: endlessly powerful but never without effect, and rigidly defined by rules of its own producing. Award-winning Jonathan Strahan brings together a few of the most fascinating and popular authors working in fantasy today to dig into that contradiction, and make available to you the strange, the challenging, the numerical, the unstable, the deceptive and above all the fearsome globe of magic. Includes tales by Garth Nix, K J Parker, Tony Ballantyne, Wayne Bradley, Isobelle Carmody, Frances Hardinge, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ellen Klages, Justina Robson, Christopher Rowe, Robert Shearman, Karin Tidbeck, Genevieve Valentine and Kaaron Warren.