Kingkiller Chronicle Short Stories/Novellas

You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell tohelp alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: an anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre. Twenty-three tales comprise this incredible collection, and as the title suggests, the writers were free to contribute whatever they wished. Here is the table of contents: - Foreword by Patrick Rothfuss - Introduction: On Becoming Unfettered - Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks - How Old Holly Came To Be by Patrick Rothfuss - The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams - Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn - The Martyr of the Roses by Jacqueline Carey - Mudboy by Peter V. Brett - The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian - The Coach with Big Teeth by R.A. Salvatore - Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood - Heaven in a Wild Flower by Blake Charlton - Dogs by Daniel Abraham - The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne - Select Mode by Mark Lawrence - All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthony Durham - Strange Rain by Jennifer Bosworth - Nocturne by Robert V.S. Redick - Unbowed by Eldon Thompson - In Favour with Their Stars by Naomi Novik - River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan - The Duel by Lev Grossman - Walker and the Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks - The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman With the help of stalwart friends and these wonderful short stories, Shawn has taken the gravest of life’s hardships and created something magical. Unfettered is not only a fantastic anthology in its own right, but it’s a testament to the generosity found in the science fiction and fantasy community—proof that humanity can give beyond itself when the need arises. After all, isn’t that the driving narrative in fantasy literature?

This thrilling collection of twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. 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. Stories: “Everybody Loves a Rogue” (Introduction) by George R. R. Martin “Tough Times All Over” by Joe Abercrombie “What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn “The Inn of the Seven Blessings” by Matt Hughes “Bent Twig” by Joe R. Lansdale “Tawny Petticoats” by Michael Swanwick “Provenance” by David W. Ball “The Roaring Twenties” by Carrie Vaughn “Bad Brass” by Bradley Denton “Heavy Metal” by Cherie Priest “The Meaning of Love” by Daniel Abraham “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch “A Better Way to Die” by Paul Cornell “Ill Seen in Tyre” by Steven Saylor “A Cargo of Ivories” by Garth Nix “Diamonds From Tequila” by Walter Jon Williams “The Caravan to Nowhere” by Phyllis Eisenstein “The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives” by Lisa Tuttle “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back” by Neil Gaiman “Now Showing” by Connie Willis “The Lightning Tree” by Patrick Rothfuss “The Rogue Prince, or, a King’s Brother” by George R. R. Martin