Beauty and the Beast Tales from Around the World

Beauty and the Beast Tales from Around the World by Heidi Anne Heiner

A solid thick collection of all sorts of animal bridegroom tales. And some other Search for the Lost Husband tales.

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philosophical observation on genre

How long after the apocalypse can a post-apocalyptic tale take place?

Is it post-apocalyptic if they are still poking about the ruins of millennia ago?

How about if science had rolled on, but irretrievably altered by the changes they made to cope with the disaster and ward off the danger?

hmmm. . . .

Kingfisher

Kingfisher by Patricia A. McKillip

It opens with a young man, a sorceress's son, who meets some knights and sets out to find his father.  And an inn that is falling to pieces but still has a diner going when he arrives.  And a royal court where the king decides to send his knights on a quest for a vaguely defined vessel -- magical but ill-recorded-- which, it turns out, also draws in the past of his illegitimate son.

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pulling together a mish-mash

Liked one of the Beauty and Beast tales enough to try to steal it.

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